A Festival of Lessons and Carols: King's College Cambridge 1954 (Boris Ord)

This is the first television broadcast of the service, filmed live on 23rd December 1954 and billed in Radio Times as 'A Festival of Lessons and Carols' which lasted 45 minutes. The carols were a reduced selection of those which were broadcast live on the radio the following day in 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols' which lasted 1 hour 20 minutes. The solo in the Bach ‘And there were shepherds’ and the reading of the first lesson, were by the Senior Chorister, R.L. Strickland. The solo in ‘Once in Royal David’s City is sung by Rodney Williams, who was to become a Lay Vicar at Westminster Abbey and a choral conductor of some note. The television broadcast has survived as it was filmed from the live broadcast on 16mm film by a process called Telerecording. Read and listen to the illustrated story of this world-famous service on our website. https://www.recordedchurchmusic.org/s... This video has been restored by the Archive.