Lucy Worsley's Christmas Carol Odyssey

BBC Four

10:40 PM to 11:40 PM

Tuesday 24 December

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Lucy explores the tradition of festive hymns, revealing that there is much more to the best-loved carols than meets the eye, and how they reveal the history of Christmas itself. In the ancient past, pagan fertility ritual the wassail gave rise to door-to-door singing, and was also an integral part of an older midwinter festival adopted by Christianity when it came to Britain, and was rebranded as Christmas