Overview
- Viewers can watch on BBC iPlayer shortly after the broadcast, with a repeat scheduled on Christmas Day at 8:45am.
- The televised special has a running time of 1 hour and 14 minutes.
- The programme opens with a solo chorister singing Once in Royal David’s City and includes music by Philip Ledger, Anton Bruckner and John Tavener.
- Congregational carols include Unto Us Is Born a Son, O Come All Ye Faithful and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.
- Members of King’s College read the Nativity from the King James Bible alongside poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, U.A. Fanthorpe and Howard Thurman.