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  1. Ring in the New

    10/10 Jeremy Summerly ponders the success of new carols over the last century.

  2. Import and Export

    9/10 How the UK began to embrace carols from all over the world.

  3. The Birth of Nine Lessons with Carols

    8/10 Jeremy Summerly traces the familiar, traditional carol service back to Truro in 1918.

  4. Folk Carol Survival and Revival

    7/10 How the gallery tradition, squeezed out of 19th-century church worship, refused to die.

  5. A Second Golden Age

    6/10 By the mid-19th century, the singing of carols was once again hugely popular.

  6. The Ghosts of the West Gallery

    5/10 Jeremy Summerly visits Dorchester where Thomas Hardy captured the caroling tradition.

  7. Carol Crisis? What Crisis?

    4/10 Jeremy describes the impact of the Reformation and Puritan attitudes to music.

  8. From Coventry to Agincourt

    3/10 Jeremy Summerly uncovers a developing professionalism in carol singing and writing.

  9. Spreading the Medieval Word Made Flesh

    2/10 How the Franciscans used the carol to make the birth of Jesus a focus.

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

    1/10 Jeremy Summerly discovers what he believes to be the first carol written in English.