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Christmas Spectacular

Jeremy Vine presents the Friday Night Is Music Night Christmas Spectacular with favourite Christmas music, poetry and readings and an all-star cast.

Jeremy Vine presents the Friday Night Is Music Night Christmas Spectacular with favourite Christmas music, poetry and readings, and an all-star cast including Dervla Kirwan, David Harewood, Michael Xavier and Scarlett Strallen.

Mike Dixon conducts the 成人论坛 Concert Orchestra together with a 16-voice choir from the Royal Academy of Music in a programme of music that features perennial favourites White Christmas, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, and The Christmas Song, together with classical favourites Prokofiev's Troika and Victor Healy Hutchinson's arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen from his Carol Symphony. Plus poetry and prose from Dickens to Dylan to Benjamin Zephaniah. This is a Christmas so stuffed with seasonal gifts it will tempt even Father Christmas to park the sleigh.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 19 Dec 2014 20:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jeremy Vine
Performer Dervla Kirwan
Performer David Harewood
Performer Scarlett Strallen
Performer Michael Xavier
Performer 成人论坛 Concert Orchestra
Conductor Mike Dixon
Director Charlotte Gazzard
Producer Anthony Cherry

Broadcast

  • Fri 19 Dec 2014 20:00