Here are a couple of Christmassy programmes available on Sounds

Sing Christmas - 2004   
Archive on 4
Christmas Day 1957;
the BBC made a ground-breaking hour-long live broadcast, transmitting Christmas songs from around the British Isles. Texan folklorist and broadcaster Alan Lomax was the host.
,,,ancient carols, folk songs, calypso, West African music, dixieland, skiffle, children's carols and glees.
This musical time capsule gathers the memories of those involved to recapture the flavour of this pioneering BBC broadcast.
Producer: Jolyon Jenkins
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ppm


Fairytale of New York - Dec 2015
Soul Music
James Fearnley, pianist with The Pogues recounts how the song started off as a transatlantic love story between an Irish seafarer missing his girl at Christmas before becoming the bittersweet reminiscences of the Irish immigrant down on his luck in the Big Apple
& stories about how the song has touched others.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9d1h