A People's Carol

Posted by Magersfontein on December 25, 2009 at 6:31pm
Here's a nice half-hour programme that BBC Radio 4 broadcast on Christmas Day in 1983. the actress Kathy Staff visits two of the villages on the outskirts of Sheffield where a unique and rather wonderful tradition of carol-singing thrives in the public houses. You can read more about the "Sheffield carols" here: http://www.villagecarols.org.uk/working.htm. The late Kathy Staff will be best known as the oddly likable termagant Norah Batty in the BBC TV sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine". Roger

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  • Riklaa December 25, 2009 at 8:43pm
    Thank You Roger. I hope you had a wonderful Holiday. Good wishes to you and yours in this most magical of all seasons.
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick
    • Magersfontein > Riklaa December 26, 2009 at 4:42pm
      "Merry Christmas to all,
      and to all a good night!"

      Roger
    • Riklaa > Magersfontein December 26, 2009 at 4:55pm
      OK Santa LOL--------Rick
    • 353qp5a356i6z > Riklaa December 30, 2009 at 11:28am
      Hi Roger,

      Many thanks and all the best for the coming New Year, katy
  • Magersfontein December 25, 2009 at 7:20pm
    And a 12-minute extract from "Music Matters", broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in December 1994, shortly after the first biennial Festival of Village Carols at Grenoside.

    Roger
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