Looking ahead to our seasonal celebrations which are just around the corner, musician and broadcaster Sandy Burnett is on hand to share his selection of much-loved Christmas tunes. Expect an hour of the finest festive music from across the globe – his selections include sparkling moments from Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, a heartwarming ballad from Mel Tormé, something from Soweto, a heavenly chorus from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig, an illustration of the English carol tradition at its finest - and something more cynical from Eartha Kitt…
Picture: The Nutcracker performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre 03 Nov 2007. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license