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On Angel Wings is a modern re-telling of the Nativity story written by Michael Morpurgo, music score by Julian Nott and broadcast on BBC One in December 2014. [1]

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References

  1. "On Angel Wings: Telling the Christmas story in a different way". BBC. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2017.