Travelling day and night from afar Mary's Asian. Joseph is white. And the Three Wise Men are 'C of E, Sikh and Muslim'. Robert Butler hails a very Nineties nativity play

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 20, 1998| Author: Robert Butler | Copyright information

As the children file into the hall, wearing blue sweaters and grey trousers or grey skirts, the sound system plays BandAid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Yes, of course they know it's Christmas, and according to one of the school governors, that means three things: "off school", "presents" and "films on TV". But do they know what Christmas is about? In an infants school in Slough, 200 children, having sat down in seven orderly rows, are about to find out.

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