With days to go until Christmas, University of the West of Scotland’s Dr Stephen Langston has written a brief history of the festive number one for The Herald.

Stephen is a leading composer and producer of Musicals whilst pioneering musical theatre education in Scotland at the University.

As an academic he is Programme Leader for Performance and Senior Lecturer in Media and Arts at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS).

In 2020 he was awarded a PhD in ‘The Golden Ratio as an Influencing Factor within the Compositional Structure of Sung through Musicals’. His research has led to numerous international press articles and publications.

Read the full article on the Herald website.