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Who Was Wenceslas and Who Decided He Was Good?

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Good King Wenceslas tells a story about an early tenth-century Bohemian duke who has since become the national saint of the Czech Republic.
So why have British people been singing about him at Christmas for more than 150 years? Mark Whitaker finds out.

(Rptd on Christmas Day at 5.45am)

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Presenter/Producer:
Mark Whitaker
Source: Radio Times

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