Wassail, carols, Thomas Hardy's waits, Victorian drawing-room at Christmas, with speakers from different European countries introducing their music
Music arranged by Francis Collinson , played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor, Rae Jenkins) and sung by Emelie Hooke (soprano), Cyril Tucker (tenor), Robert Irwin (baritone), the Etruscan Singers and Jean Greenhough with the pupils of J Shelton Junior Day School, Stoke-on-Trent.
Programme written and produced by Edward Livesey