A Christmas Story for 2025, Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising, a personal favourite and one that I could fit music to. Being a full novel, it went on for rather longer than our usual show, but kept within the normal postshow cutoff, so I thought we’d be OK. Up to 22 listener connections, so I seem to have been right. Good to see so many folks in the Cavern on a Holiday weekend too.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| Wintersmith | Steeleye Span | Wintersmith | 2014 |
| Banquet Hall | Loreena McKennitt | To Drive The Cold Winter Away | 1994 |
| Merlin’s Time | Al Stewart & Shot in the Dark | Chronicles… The Best of Al Stewart | 1991 |
| Songs From the Wood | Jethro Tull | Songs from the Wood | 1977 |
| Dogs in the Midwinter | Jethro Tull | Crest of a Knave | 1987 |
| Song For A Winter’s Night | Gordon Lightfoot | The Way I Feel | 1967 |
| A Winter Snowscape | Jethro Tull | The Jethro Tull Christmas Album | 2003 |
| Lost In The Snow | Bruce Hornsby | Halcyon Days | 2004 |
Main Show (some of the main show tracks were played as background to the story narration)
| Räven | Hedningarna | Trä | 1994 |
| (b)Iron Altitude High | Robyn Miller | Obduction soundtrack | 2016 |
| The Rookery | Sharon Shannon, Frankie Gavin, Michael Mcgoldrick And Jim Murray | Tunes | 2005 |
| (b)Pilgrims Road | Gandalf | Sanctuary | 2009 |
| Midwinter’s Night | Blackmore’s Night | Fires At Midnight | 2001 |
| (b)Halls Of Spirits | Jack Wall | Myst IV Revelation OST | 2004 |
| The Dance of Albion | Gordon Giltrap | Visionary | 1976 |
| Timewhys | Tonto’s Expanding Head Band | Zero Time | 1971 |
| The Old Straight Track | Jack The Lad | The Old Straight Track | 1974 |
| The old man (from Straloch Lute Book) | Ronn McFarlane | The Scottish Lute | 1990 |
| (b)Nowell sing we, both all and some (c.1450 Seldon MS) | The Sixteen | Christus Natus Est: An Early English Christmas | 2004 |
| Personent Hodie | Ashley Hutchings | The Guv’nor vol 4 | 1996 |
| God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Jethro Tull | The Jethro Tull Christmas Album | 2003 |
| Good king Wenceslas, Flower Carol | Heather Dale | This Endris Night | 2004 |
| Wintertanz | Ougenweide | All die weil ich mag | 1974 |
| (b)Bradychiad (Betrayal) | Ceredwen | The Golden Land | 1997 |
| Wood | Telling The Bees | Untie The Wind | 2008 |
| (b)Old Light | Andy Cutting | Andy Cutting | 2010 |
| (b)The King | Steeleye Span | Please to See the King | 1991 |
| A Sign of the Ages | Gil Scott-Heron | Pieces of a Man | 1971 |
| World Of Stone | Blackmore’s Night | The Village Lanterne | 2006 |
| (b)1936 Lost in the Snow | Wigwam | Tombstone Valentine | 1970 |
| (b)Dark Flame | Passport | Inner Blue | 2011 |
| For behold, darkness shall cover (Recit Bass) | G. F. Handel | Messiah (Disc One, Part I) | 1993 |
| This Darkest Winter | Runrig | Heartland | 1985 |
| (b)Alla Hornpipe | H ndel, Georg Friedrich | Water Music | 1963 |
| Tribal Rites | Rare Air | Hard To Beat | 1987 |
| Rivers of Light | Tony Levin | Stick Man | 2007 |
| Herne | Clannad | Legend | 1984 |
| Keep That Same Old Feeling | The Crusaders | Way Back Home, Disc IV | 1996 |
Postshow
| White Winter Hymnal | Pentatonix | That’s Christmas To Me | 2014 |
| Riders on the Storm | The Doors | L.A. Woman | 1999 |
| Make The Sign | Whapweasel | Pack Of Jokers | 2005 |
| Brand New Day | Lindisfarne | Caught in the Act | 1992 |
| Fire At Night | Gregg Rolie | Gringo | 1987 |
| Holly Herald | Jethro Tull | The Jethro Tull Christmas Album | 2003 |
| Keeper Of The Light | Wishbone Ash | Here To Hear | 1989 |
| Heavy Horses | JETHRO TULL | Heavy Horses – DISC 1 – A Steven Wilson Stereo Remix | 1978 |
| Old Soul | John Scofield | Groove Elation | 1995 |