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brightknightie) wrote2024-12-01 07:50 am
brightknightie) wrote2024-12-01 07:50 am
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My favorite Christmas podcast is back
My favorite Christmas podcast, Hark! The Stories Behind Our Favorite Christmas Carols, is back for a new season. Check out their official website or find them wherever you get your podcasts. I recommend them highly.
Hark! is about "the meaning and the making of our most beloved Christmas carols and their time-honored traditions." It researches the history, lyrics, music, theology, and more of each piece. As their site puts it: "Where do these beloved yuletide songs come from? What inspired the people who composed them? How did they become popular and even mainstream? And what impact do their ancient Christian messages have on an increasingly post-Christian culture?"
So far this year, they've done "We Three Kings" and "The Little Drummer Boy." Past years have included "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," "Silent Night," "Carol of the Bells," "Good King Wenceslas," "The Huron Carol," "Joy to the World," "In the Bleak Midwinter," "O Holy Night," "Go Tell it on the Mountain," and more.
(My second-favorite Christmas podcast, Christmas Past, is also back. It's a more generalist Christmas podcast -- "equal parts nerdy deep dive and warmhearted celebration... inspired by public radio" -- and it puts out many more episodes per season. Here's their official website.)
Hark! is about "the meaning and the making of our most beloved Christmas carols and their time-honored traditions." It researches the history, lyrics, music, theology, and more of each piece. As their site puts it: "Where do these beloved yuletide songs come from? What inspired the people who composed them? How did they become popular and even mainstream? And what impact do their ancient Christian messages have on an increasingly post-Christian culture?"
So far this year, they've done "We Three Kings" and "The Little Drummer Boy." Past years have included "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," "Silent Night," "Carol of the Bells," "Good King Wenceslas," "The Huron Carol," "Joy to the World," "In the Bleak Midwinter," "O Holy Night," "Go Tell it on the Mountain," and more.
(My second-favorite Christmas podcast, Christmas Past, is also back. It's a more generalist Christmas podcast -- "equal parts nerdy deep dive and warmhearted celebration... inspired by public radio" -- and it puts out many more episodes per season. Here's their official website.)