Coventry Carol program

Christmas morning 11 a.m. London time, or 3:30 p.m. CST in Aberdeen, SD, a BBC Radio 4 program will look at (and listen to) the Coventry Carol. Part of the program will include discussion of parts of the following column. I originally wanted to call it Herod the Great and Post-Christmas Depression, but editors were sticklers for keeping "and" and "the" out of headlines then, and without those crucial words, the headline would be unintelligible. I settled for Can Death Obliterate Christmas? Ask Herod. The column was published Dec. 23, 2001 in the Aberdeen American News.

My name, Donna Marmorstein, is listed as Donna Marmestein on the BBC promo page. So much for glory, but I'm sure the program will be wonderful and there will be varied perspectives on the mysterious carol.