from Exeter Cathedral, where a thousand members of choirs affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music have gathered with a folk group, madrigal singers, handbell ringers, and other local musicians for this musical celebration of Christmas. Geoffrey Wheeler visited Exeter to talk to some of the people who take part in tonight's programme and to find out how this beautiful cathedral city celebrates the birth of Christ.
0 come, all ye faithful; God rest you merry, gentlemen: Good King Wenceslas; Hark! the herald-angels sing; 0 little town of Bethlehem: While shepherds watched: Of the Father's love begotten: Once in royal David's city: 1 saw three ships; The holly and the ivy; Ding dong! merrily on high; La peregrinacion; A spotless rose: In the bleak mid-winter; A hymn to the Virgin; In dulci jubilo; The Sans Day Carol Conductor LIONEL DAKERS Organist MARTIN HOW
Musical adviser MICHAEL ARMITAGE Film director SIMON HAMMOND Producer ELIZABETH GORT ,
Series producer JIM MURRAY