I thought EBU just did Eurovision, and that was that, but yesterday, driving to Chesterfield for an evening session, I was forced onto Radio 3 by “Poetry? Puhlease!” on Radio 4 and heard a wonderful concert from the BBC Singers.

There were a number of unaccompanied carols, all of them the sorts of things that even good choirs struggle to stay in tune for.

The theme was English and French carols, and many of them were in French, sung with good French accents too. Well done, BBC Singers.

The session ended up with a glorious, chaotic arrangement of Ding Dong Merrily on High with the Glorias going all over the place and changing key randomly.

The EBU link? This was apparently part of the annual EBU Day of Christmas Music – a 7 hour long marathon of concerts from Moscow, Karlsruhe (Nottingham’s twin town), Québécois Laval (? European?) and Chrudim in the Czech Republic, as well as the London concert.

It’s available on the BBC’s “Listen Again” under the link above – but only as one link for the whole 7 hours!