| Description | Track 1: Introduction by Charles Parker, 0.42 mins
Track 2: Alan Lomax introduces the programme, 1.12 mins
Track 3: part of 'Good King Wenceslas', played by the Brian Newy Skiffle Group, 0.36 mins
Track 4: Woman sings 'This is the Truth Sent from Above', Alan Lomax talks about the history of carols, 0.53 mins
Track 5: part of 'The Holly and the Ivy' sung by the choir of Hader House, Aberdeenshire, 1.14 mins
Track 6: part of the 'Sans Day Carol' sung by the Skinners Bottom Glee Singers, 0.43 mins
Track 7: Peter Kenny introduces Charlie Bates talking about carol singing in Cornwall,, 0.23 mins
Track 8: band plays, 0.33 mins
Track 9: Charlie Bates sings a Cornish wassail song, 1.01 mins
Track 10: Marshfield Gloucestershire Mummers sing and dance, 0.44
Track 11: Petty Officer Tawny sings 'I Wonder as I Wander', group sings 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas', 1.35 mins
Track 12: continues Track 11, 0.42 mins
Track 13: Ewan MacColl and a group of farmers sing carols, Alan Lomax talks about customs and carols in Derbyshire, 1.42 mins
Track 14: 'Jesus was a Working Man', sung by Ewan MacColl; extract from Yorkshire nativity play, 2.49 mins
Track 15: Christmas lullaby sung by the Hollingwood Girls Choir, extract from the Wisbech Nativity play; Charles Chilton talks about the history of Christmas in London, 2.24 mins
Track 16: Bert Lloyd sings 'The Derby Ram', 1.18 mins
Track 17: Fitzroy Coleman, from Jamaica, sings a song about Christmas in London 'Drink a Rum, this is Christmas Morning', 1.51 mins
Track 18: (Ran's?) Boys Drum Band sing a Christmas song, 1.50 mins
Track 19: An African-American woman sings a Christmas lullaby, 1.24 mins
Track 20: Scottish fisherman reads the story of the Magi to his family, 1.02 mins
Track 21: Scottish fishing crew sing 23rd Psalm, 1.24 mins
Track 22: Gaelic prayer of blessing, 0.48 mins
Track 23: Flora MacNeill sings 'The Christ Child Lullaby' in Gaelic, 1.11 mins
Track 24: Silence, 14.03 mins
Total: 42.11 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 2 of 2 KF549C0072680 |