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The best of Christmas radio The audio highlights of the festive season.    As someone with a superhuman appetite for Christmas cheer, the first day of December marks the date when I switch over to Classic FM – when the station starts blasting wall-to-wall carols and doesn’t stop until January. Over on BBC Radio 4, the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge (24 December, 3pm) takes on new significance in a year where traditional local singalongs can’t happen, and will be performed to an empty chapel for the first time. Fortunately, this year’s setlist includes such indisputable bangers as “Sussex Carol”, “Adam Lay Ybounden” and the Darke version of “In the Bleak Midwinter”, as well as the usual favourites. For those who like their festive music a little more jazzy, there’s

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