Carols

Carols are much weirder than we think

14 December 2024 9:00 am

Why, my sharp-minded colleague Tom Utley once asked after a Telegraph Christmas Carol service, should anyone think God would abhor…

How we became a nation of choirs and carollers

5 December 2020 9:00 am

Alexandra Coghlan on how we became a nation of choirs and carollers

The threat to Christmas carols – and how to save them

13 December 2014 9:00 am

A glorious, healthy and intensely pleasurable tradition is in danger

The curious language of Christmas carols

13 December 2014 9:00 am

I could never understand as a little girl why we sang: ‘Away in a manger, no crib for a bed.’…

The splendour of the English carol

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Michael Henderson on the splendour of carols