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So thank you and enjoy the walk. It's a cold, dark, It's a cold, dark Welsh night night and we're just coming in to the churchyard of Stadeco's church in Malchid village.

And we're here with a great sense of anticipation because we're going to join the Plagine Carol tradition, which stretches back hundreds of years.

We've got quite a record on Folk on Foot now of doing Christmas episodes.

We did the Sheffield Carols, we did the Wexford Carols, and now this is the third in our series.

And I first heard about the

Welsh tradition of Plagine carols from Gwilin-Riece when we were talking to him in Aberdaren.

And he said, oh, you must come to one of the services. And it is a service. So there's no

applause. You don't hear an audience, although there will be a big audience. You don't hear them

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