It’s the sixth day of Christmas, and whilst we won’t be bestowing a flock of half a dozen geese on you today, we are certainly still in carol-loving mode, so we’re sharing with you one of our all-time favourite Christmas pieces. The story goes that Peter Warlock wrote ‘Bethlehem Down’ with poet Bruce Blunt for the Daily Telegraph’s annual carol composition competition in 1927, which they won, and spent the winnings on an epic Christmas bender down the pub (or as Blunt called it, an "immortal car

43K views · 1.1K reactions | The beautiful carol 'Bethlehem Down' by Peter Warlock, sung by the young choral singers of Genesis Sixteen. | Classic FM | Facebook

The composer Peter Warlock was a heavy-drinking hell-raiser who dabbled in black magic and died at the age of 36… 🎧 Discover the whole story in the latest episode of our TRUE CRIME PODCAST: www.classicfm.com/casenotes ✅ Subscribe on iTunes: UK: https://trib.al/cYtrWj0 US: https://trib.al/UUral6I | Classic FM