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Mistletoe

Duration:: 27 minutes

First broadcast:: Saturday 25 December 2010

Owen Sheers is in Worcestershire to learn about the Druidic custom of gathering in the mistletoe. Each year it is harvested and blessed at the Mistletoe Festival in the town of Tenbury Wells.

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

Druid blessing the mistletoe (Getty Images)

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