The First Noels

The New Noels (1x7)

Air date: Dec 24, 1984

Why is 'White Christmas' as much a carol as 'In the bleak mid-winter'? The last of seven programmes looks at the modern Christmas, from Charles Dickens and Prince Albert to Johnny Mathis and John Lennon. Sir Geraint discovers that the modem celebration has changed little from Victorian times, and that a number of Christmas pop songs are modem carols.