This episode features some of the more ancient and obscure midwinter traditions that have endured alongside Christmas, as well as some lesser-known carols of this festival, many of which are pagan in origin.
Content warning for animal sacrifice and general heathen revelry.

Music:
Intro theme - "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
"Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand" by Norma Waterson
"Bonny At Morn / Hunting the Cutty Wren" by Clive Williams & Mark Prescott
"Nou Is Yole Comen" by Shira Kammen
"The Boar's Head Carol" by The Young Tradition, Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins
"Wexford Mummer's Song" by Mary O'Hara
"Gloomy Winter" by Bonnie Rideout
"The Cutty Wren" by Royston Wood & Heather Wood
"Dryw Bach" by Carreg Lafar
"Hela'r Dryw" by Fernhill
"The Hern" by John Fleagle
"Down in Yon Forest" by Shirley Collins
"Apple Tree Wassail" by Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews
"Malpas Wassail" by the Watersons
"Gower Wassail" by Kerfuffle
"Green Grow'th the Holly" by Coope, Simpson, Fraser & Freya
"Nay Ivy Nay" by Sue Brown & Lorraine Irwing
"The Ditchling Carol" by Waterson : Carthy