News - John Kirkpatrick

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14 Dec 2009:

VICTORIAN FARM

Just about everybody I have spoken to over the last year has revealed that they had seen and enjoyed the television series depicting the working year on a farm in the 1880s. Three brand new episodes are now being shown in the run up to Christmas, each one with a few repeats at all hours of day and night, and, as before, my cheery visage pops up now and again as a genuine Victorian folkie.

The instalment destined to be shown on Christmas Eve includes a Carol Service, where you will see a seven piece band of local worthies - mostly current or former members of The Shropshire Bedlams - pumping out some little known Shropshire tunes for some well known carols.

You can see a snippet of this straight away on the BBC Victorian Christmas website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/victorianchristmas/activity/carol-singing.shtml