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The All Christmas Pre-Christmas Christmas Programme 2025!

It's Gid's annual All Christmas Pre-Christmas Christmas Programme, 2025 edition, featuring Bob Dylan, Darlene Love, Joni Mitchell, and of course The Top Gear Carol Concert 1970.

It's Gid's annual All Christmas Pre-Christmas Christmas Programme, 2025 edition, featuring Bob Dylan, Darlene Love, Joni Mitchell, and of course The Top Gear Carol Concert 1970, featuring Rod Stewart, Marc Bolan, Sonja Kristina, Robert Wyatt, and many more.

Produced in Salford by BBC Audio North for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Christmas Eve 202521:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Say Sue Me

    Christmas, It's Not a Biggie

  • The Kingstonians

    Merry Christmas

    • Trojan Records.

  • Bob Dylan

    Must Be Santa

    • Christmas In The Heart.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Sun Ra & The Qualities

    It's Christmas Time

    • Supreme Media.

  • JD McPherson

    SOCKS

    • New West Records.

  • Nancy Lee & Al Johnson & Soul-Jers

    Xmas Commercial Blues

    • Tramp Records.

  • Half Man Half Biscuit

    It's Clichéd to Be Cynical at Christmas

    • Probe Plus.

  • Rotary Connection

    Peace at Least

    • Geffen.

  • Jake Thackray

    Remember Bethlehem

    • Parlophone UK.

  • African Children's Choir

    Bolingo

    • Music For Life Academy Limited.

  • Tracey Thorn

    Like a Snowman

    • Strange Feeling Records.

  • Cocteau Twins

    Frosty The Snowman

    • Fontana.

  • Chilly Gonzales

    Snow Is Falling In Manhattan (feat. Jarvis Cocker)

    • Gentle Threat.

  • Plum Crazy

    Run, Run, Rudolph (Live at the Patti Pavilion) (feat. Dave Edmunds)

  • Melodeers

    Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

  • Don Randi Trio

    God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Live at Sherry's, Hollywood, 1962)

    • Verve Reissues.

  • Citizen Helene

    On Christmas Day

    • Hand of Glory.

  • Kate Rusby

    The Christmas Goose

    • Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd.

  • Brenda Lee

    Papa Noël

    • Sunday Club Records.

  • King Stitt

    Christmas Tree

    • Clancy's Records.

  • Ramones

    Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

    • SIRE.

  • Funk Machine

    Soul Santa

    • Essential Media Group.

  • The Unthanks

    Coventry Carol

    • RabbleRouser Music.

  • John Fahey

    The Little Drummer Boy

    • Burnside Records.

  • Clifton Chenier

    It's Christmas Time

    • Arhoolie Records.

  • James Brown

    Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto

    • Polydor.

  • Frank Sidebottom

    Oh Blimey It's Christmas

    • Parlophone UK.

  • Darlene Love

    Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

    • ABKCO.

  • Rod Stewart

    Away In A Manger

  • Bolan/Peel/Kristina/Soft Machine/Stewart/The Faces/Cutler, Marc Bolan, John Peel, Sonja Kristina, Soft Machine, Rod Stewart, Faces, Ivor Culter & David Bedford

    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

  • Bolan/Peel /Kristina/Soft Machine/Stewart /The Faces/Cutler, Marc Bolan, John Peel, Sonja Kristina, Soft Machine, Rod Stewart, Faces, Ivor Culter & David Bedford

    Good King Wenceslas

  • Bolan/Peel /Kristina/Soft Machine/Stewart /The Faces/Cutler, Marc Bolan, John Peel, Sonja Kristina, Soft Machine, Rod Stewart, Faces, Ivor Culter & David Bedford

    Oh Come, All Ye Faithful

  • Sonja Kristina

    Silent Night (Radio 1 Session, 8 Dec 1970)

  • Joni Mitchell

    River

    • Reprise.

  • Stevens, Peter

    The Lamb - carol

    • EMI Classics.

  • Mabel Scott & Peter Maxwell Davies

    Boogie Woogie Santa Claus

    • 100 Hits.

  • The Beach Boys

    Little Saint Nick

    • Virgin.

  • Grandaddy

    Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland

    • JEEPSTER.

  • Vince Guaraldi Trio

    Christmas Time Is Here

    • MELODIC.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Eve 202521:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music