Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas - Episode 2

Radio 2 goes on a journey to celebrate local voices and different caroling traditions around England and Wales. Across the country, pockets of people have been keeping alive Christmas traditions that were lost to most hundreds of years ago. This Christmas, they're inviting you to step into their homes, pubs and churches, to share their festive sounds. In part two, the Gaelic folk singer Julie Fowlis discovers ancient Welsh traditions. In tiny villages dotted across North Wales there's a local Christmas tradition that will transport you over the hills, into the valleys, and back in time. In a hushed church Plygain singers step forward to present the Christmas hymn that has been in their family for generations, the unaccompanied sound of small Welsh choirs echoing in the stillness of the service. In the final episode, Bellowhead's Jon Boden joins a good old knees-up in Leigh-on-Sea.