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A Cause for Caroling Episodes

  1. Mon 9 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    1. A Carol's a Carol, to Begin With

    Jeremy Summerly discovers what he believes to be the first carol written in English.

  2. Tue 10 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    2. Spreading the Medieval Word Made Flesh

    How the Franciscans used the carol to make the birth of Jesus a focus.

  3. Wed 11 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    3. From Coventry to Agincourt

    Jeremy Summerly uncovers a developing professionalism in carol singing and writing.

  4. Thu 12 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    4. Carol Crisis? What Crisis?

    Jeremy describes the impact of the Reformation and Puritan attitudes to music.

  5. Fri 13 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    5. The Ghosts of the West Gallery

    Jeremy Summerly visits Dorchester where Thomas Hardy captured the caroling tradition.

  6. Mon 16 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    6. A Second Golden Age

    By the mid-19th century, the singing of carols was once again hugely popular.

  7. Tue 17 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    7. Folk Carol Survival and Revival

    How the gallery tradition, squeezed out of 19th-century church worship, refused to die.

  8. Wed 18 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    8. The Birth of Nine Lessons with Carols

    Jeremy Summerly traces the familiar, traditional carol service back to Truro in 1918.

  9. Thu 19 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    9. Import and Export

    How the UK began to embrace carols from all over the world.

  10. Fri 20 Dec 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

    10. Ring in the New

    Jeremy Summerly ponders the success of new carols over the last century.