Nation's Favourite Christmas Carol
Classic FM is also known for broadcasting the "Nation's Favourite Christmas Carol". In a similar format to the "Hall of Fame", the show counts down the 30 most popular Christmas carols every Christmas Day, as voted for by listeners. It began in 2001, with In the Bleak Midwinter winning the first vote. The following year, Silent Night was voted the nation's favourite. Every year since then, however, the vote has been won by O Holy Night.
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Famous quotes containing the words nation, favourite, christmas and/or carol:
“A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbia’s favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.”
—Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (84–54 B.C.)
“The twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping.”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 89–91)
“In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)