Before Christmas. A visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore --
from The Feast of St Friend / Arnold Bennett --
The gypsy / Edward Thomas --
from Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence --
from Cider with Rosie / Laurie Lee --
from The River Duddon / William Wordsworth --
from Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte --
from A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens --
The oxen / Thomas Hardy --
Bertie's Christmas Eve / Saki --
The Nativity. A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti --
from On the morning of Christ's Nativity / John Milton --
from The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
A Christmas Carol / G.K. Chesterton --
Christmas day. from his Diary / Samuel Pepys --
Music on Christmas morning / Anne Bronte --
from Orley Farm / Anthony Trollope --
Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson --
from The mill on the Floss / George Eliot --
Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling --
The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly --
from Christmas pudding / Nancy Mitford --
Christmas fare. from "Old Christmas" in The sketch book of Washington Irving / Washington Irving --
from A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --
Christmas husbandly fare, from Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie / Thomas Tusser --
Talking turkeys!! / Benjamin Zephaniah --
Another Christmas carol / P.G. Wodehouse --
Christmas at war. Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
A Christmas ghost-story / Thomas Hardy --
A Christmas prayer / Cyril Winterbotham --
The truce of Christmas / G.K. Chesterton --
The holly on the wall / W.H. Davies --
A child's Christmas. from A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas --
from The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame --
The carol of the poor children / Richard Middleton --
from Little Women / Louisa May Alcott --
The lost boy / George Mackay Brown --
Seasonal snow and ice. from his Diary / John Evelyn --
from Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London / John Gay --
from English hours / Henry James --
from As you like it / William Shakespeare --
from Emma / Jane Austen --
The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray --
from The Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens --
New Year. Dirge for the year / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve / Robert Herrick --
Ring out, wild bells, from In memoriam / Alfred Tennyson.