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Christmas carols carry centuries of stories. Some playful. Some haunting. But all earn their place beside the classics.

In this guided evening, music expert Helen Astrid opens the songbook and takes you inside the tunes you know by heart.

You will hear how some carols travelled the world, why others almost vanished, and which versions stuck because audiences just loved to sing them together. Created for major cultural venues, Helen’s popular talk traces more than 300 years of carol-singing across Europe and beyond.

Created for the V&A and now refined for a live audience, Christmas Carols Unwrapped blends short musical examples with clear, lively storytelling to make singing carols even more magical.