Stories behind the best-loved songs of Christmas

Angels, from the realms of glory

Angels we have heard on high

Away in a manger

The Christmas song

Do you hear what I hear?

The first noel

Go tell it on the mountain

God rest ye merry gentlemen

Good Christian men, rejoice

Good King Wenceslas

Hark! the herald angels sing

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Here comes Santa Claus (right down Santa Claus Lane)

I heard the bells on Christmas day

I wonder as I wander

I'll be home for Christmas

It came upon the midnight clear

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Jingle bells

Joy to the world

Little drummer boy

Mary did you know

O come, all ye faithful

O come, o come, Emmanuel

O holy night

O little town of Bethlehem

Pretty paper

Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer

Silent night

Silver bells

There's a song in the air

Twelve days of Christmas

We three kings

What child is this?

White Christmas