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A Cause for Caroling

Choral conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly traces the origins and traditions of the Christmas carol in Britain

Radio 4 Extra,10 episodes

Episodes

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10. Ring in the New
Jeremy Summerly ponders the success of new carols over the last century.
15 mins20 Dec 2013
9. Import and Export
How the UK began to embrace carols from all over the world.
15 mins19 Dec 2013
8. The Birth of Nine Lessons with Carols
Jeremy Summerly traces the familiar, traditional carol service back to Truro in 1918.
15 mins18 Dec 2013
7. Folk Carol Survival and Revival
How the gallery tradition, squeezed out of 19th-century church worship, refused to die.
15 mins17 Dec 2013
6. A Second Golden Age
By the mid-19th century, the singing of carols was once again hugely popular.
15 mins16 Dec 2013
5. The Ghosts of the West Gallery
Jeremy Summerly visits Dorchester where Thomas Hardy captured the caroling tradition.
15 mins13 Dec 2013
4. Carol Crisis? What Crisis?
Jeremy describes the impact of the Reformation and Puritan attitudes to music.
15 mins12 Dec 2013
3. From Coventry to Agincourt
Jeremy Summerly uncovers a developing professionalism in carol singing and writing.
15 mins11 Dec 2013
2. Spreading the Medieval Word Made Flesh
How the Franciscans used the carol to make the birth of Jesus a focus.
15 mins10 Dec 2013
1. A Carol's a Carol, to Begin With
Jeremy Summerly discovers what he believes to be the first carol written in English.
15 mins09 Dec 2013