What time Carols from King's is on BBC Two on Christmas Eve and where it is filmed

It would not be Christmas without the traditional Carols from King's on BBC TV on Christmas Eve. The service, which is filmed at King's College Chapel in Cambridge, was first broadcast in 1928.

Since 1930 it has been broadcast live every year on Christmas Eve, with the exception of 2020 when a pre-recorded service was broadcast due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The service includes readings from the Bible and a number of Christmas carols including Away in a Manager, Ding Dong Merrily on High and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.

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The opening carol is always Once in Royal David's City. Each year since 1983 a new work has been commissioned for the service and this year Cheryl Frances-Hoad has written ‘The Cradle’, a setting of an English translation by Robert Graves of an anonymous seventeenth-century Austrian text.

Carol’s from Kings will air on BBC Two on Christmas Eve, December 24, at 6.40pm, and on Christmas Day, December 25, at 9am.

The BBC says the service will be: "A celebration of Christmas from the candlelit chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, led by the dean, the Reverend Dr Stephen Cherry, with the world-renowned choir under the direction of Daniel Hyde."

The service is not broadcast live, and it was filmed earlier in December.