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Episode 59 - The Glorious English Carol
This is a love letter to the great English Christmas carols, from "There Is No Rose" to "The Boar's Head".
Did you know that not just any Christmas song is a carol? The true carol, in all its earthy splendor, is a distinctive product of the Catholic middle ages. Yet our forefathers didn't limit caroling to Christmas: they wrote carols for every season of the year covering the entire story of our Redemption, not to mention secular topics at times.
This episode explores the origin of carols in England, their cultural meaning, and how they were suppressed by the Puritans and were revived in…
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