Welcome everyone. Please enjoy our reader submitted carols they are always a festive treat.
Please link your favourite carols in the comments and we’ll play them each evening through Christmas Day.
From Osumashi
From freddiegomez
From handy n handsome
From PA Cat
From NormanInNewYork
From Surele Surele
Welcome to Reader Fave Carols one and all. This is a long running tradition on BCF, so long I can’t recall what year it started!
Please link your favourite carols in the comments and we’ll play them each evening through Christmas Day.
From Osumashi
From SegerSon
From NormanInNewYork!
From Hermes!
From freddiegomez
From shasta – Fun Fact – “Mae Questel also played the role of Aunt Bethany in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
From Clink
From PA Cat
Welcome Everyone! Christmas is just round the corner and we’re back with the annual Reader Fave Carols – 2025 edition.
Post your faves in the comments and our elves will gather them up for posting every evening through the Big Day.
I’ll start us off, enjoy!
Boney M. – Mary’s Boy Child
Angels We Have Heard On High – Foxes and Fossils
Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas
Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
From missiles to mistletoe.
Christmas celebrations publicly returned to Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, for the first time since the outset of the war in Gaza.
Bethlehem lit its Christmas tree for the first time since 2022. 🎄
A 20‑meter beacon of light and hope in Manger Square, shining beside the Church of the Nativity, the birthplace of our Lord Jesus Christ. ✨ https://t.co/8vKArARlso pic.twitter.com/R4cQmzgQeK
— Muse (@xmuse_) December 7, 2025
On behalf of Xavier and Sarcasticat, Osumashi & Black Mamba have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thank you for being there for Xavier and I.
Me and Mr. Cat will be spending a quiet Christmas at home this year.
Between the BP and the subsequent infection it’s better I stay home and take orders from the cat. Though I must add that everything is well on its way to clearing up.
X and I will enjoy Turkey with all the fixins just a little more slowly than is usual.
And I will be here manning the blog and dashing to the kitchen every once in awhile to prep our Christmas feast!
I hope each of you has a wonderful Christmas day. Please make a memory.
This one’s for Kath.
Barely 180 days into “the war to end all wars,” the European states were deadlocked in a conflict more destructive and dehumanizing than any previous war in the history of the world.
The death toll was already staggering. From August 1914, when hostilities broke out, until December, most of the British Expeditionary Force in France, about 160,000 men, had been wiped out. The French and German armies sustained combat losses of well over 600,000 between them. Nearly 200,000 of Austria’s best troops were dead, another half million wounded. As Christmas approached, Pope Benedict XV appealed for a temporary truce over the Christian holiday. It was soundly rejected by the warring governments and their generals.
For leftists, history isn’t a matter of facts from which one learns (or that merely entertain). Instead, history is something to be manipulated to gain and maintain power. Orwell, who saw communists in action during the Spanish Civil War, wrote about the “memory hole” in 1984 based on having seen the communists instantly delete or rewrite past or current events to achieve present goals.
This year, leftists are on fire to rewrite the story of Christ, casting him as a “Palestinian refugee.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
WATCH:
For the first time EVER. All of the billboards in Times Square were shut off & then lit up with the true meaning of Christmas:
The birth of Jesus Christ
The MSM censored this! You know what to do.
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) December 25, 2024
h/t Hermes
Hello Everyone! Welcome to Reader Fave Carols – Christmas Day Edition – Part 2.
Thank you everyone for keeping this annual tradition alive. Your participation is appreciated!
Enjoy this selection and Merry Christmas!
The Kinks – Father Christmas – from Canminuteman
And … The Pretenders “2000 Miles”
Blue Christmas by Porky Pig – From seaoh
Annie Lennox – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – From X — Formerly IB_Joe
Holiday Inn | Bing Crosby Sings “White Christmas” – From Norman in New York
And … PHILIPPINE MADRIGAL SINGERS – ANG PASKO AY SUMAPIT
Hiazt Kumt A Wunderbare Zeit (A Wonderful Time is Coming) – From SDMatt
A Ghost Story for Christmas: “A Warning to the Curious”, with Sir Christopher Lee – From Kiki9
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings: Bach, Grosser Herr und starker König (Weihnachtsoratorium) – From PA Cat
In the eight decades since its release, It’s a Wonderful Life has become a sacrosanct part of the holiday period. James Stewart stars as George Bailey, a savings and loans manager who contemplates taking his own life until an angel shows him a vision of how much worse off his town and his loved ones would be if he had never been born. Due to a clerical oversight, the film’s copyright expired in 1974, and the subsequent television broadcasts cemented its reputation as a Christmas classic. And yet, even in 1974, its director Frank Capra was still having to defend it from the charge of being “over-sentimental”.
Just the trailer I’m sorry to say. But a much loved Christmas staple.
Welcome everyone to Reader Fave Carols! I hope you are all enjoying this wonderful Christmas Day!
We’ll have Part 2 up later this evening for your listening pleasure!
Enjoy!
Handel: Messiah, For unto us a child is born (Sir Colin Davis, Tenebrae, LSO) – From PA Cat
Adam Lambert & Noa Dori singing ‘The Prayer’-David Foster – From Norman in New York
And … יונינה- מעוז צור | Yonina- Maoz Tzur
US Air Force Band & Singing Sergeants – From freddiegomez
And … O Holy Night | Sandi Patty and The Tabernacle Choir
Andy Williams – O Holy Night – From Clink9
The Trailer Park Hillbillionaires Ep4-The Christmas Special with Elon Musk And Marky Zuckerberg – From Hermes
Lidija Bacic Lille – Sretan Bozic (Merry Christmas) – From Martin B
Who Put the Stump? – From dunst43
Pavlo – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – From SDMatt
Bing Crosby, the Oscar-winning megastar “Voice of America.” A score by Irving Berlin, composer of the most popular song of all time (“White Christmas”). Vera-Ellen, one of the most talented female dancers of the age. Michael Curtiz, director of one of the top movies in Hollywood history (“Casablanca”).
It was November 1843, two years after Prince Albert first introduced Britain to the tradition of the Christmas tree. Charles Dickens was 31, and yet to grow his beard. A dire report on child labour the previous year had worked him up into a compassionate rage. Just as pressingly, Dickens needed cash. The author was already famous for The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, but the public was struggling with Martin Chuzzlewit and, to top it off, his wife Catherine was pregnant again.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks, amid explosions of laughter and tears at his desk. He knew straight away it was his best work yet, and commissioned a fancy edition to celebrate, complete with gold-edged paper and hand-coloured pictures. It was published on 19 December and had sold out by Christmas Eve, but the book was very expensive to manufacture, and profits were meagre. It was also immediately pirated, although when Dickens sued for damages, the pirates went bankrupt, leaving him to foot the legal bills. So in the first year, A Christmas Carol lost money, and Dickens moved his family to Italy to manage their expenses.
