成人快手

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• 00:01

  Nina Simone

  Little Girl Blue

  Performer: Nina Simone.

  • From Desktop Jukebox.

• Louisa M. Allcott

  Extract from Little Women read by Nadine Marshall

• 00:06

  Grace Williams

  Extract from Fantasia on Welsh nursery tunes

  Performer: Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Andrew Penny.

  • MARCO POLO 8225048.

• Robert Frost

  The Gift Outright read by Robert Frost

• 00:09

  Aaron Copland

  Appalachian spring - Thema and variations ('The Gift to be Simple')

  Performer: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra / Hugh Wolff.

  • Teldec 398428169-2.
• 00:13

  Johnny Cash

  Christmas As I Knew It

  Performer: Johnny Cash.

  • From Desktop Jukeox.

• Harper Lee

  Extract from To Kill A Mockingbird read by Nadine Marshall

• 00:18

  Claude Debussy

  Children's corner for piano, Serenade for the doll

  Performer: Noriko Ogawa.

  • BIS CD1205.

• Sue Townsend

  Extract from The Diary of Adrian Mole read by Kenneth Cranham

• 00:22

  Michael Carr, Tommie Connor and Jimmy Leach

  The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot

  Performer: Nat King Cole.

  • From Desktop Jukebox.
• 00:24

  Terje Isungset and Sidsel Endresen

  Igloo - extract

  Performer: Terje Isungset and.

  • All Ice Records聽?聳 All Ice 0601.
  • 1.

• Simon Armitage

  The Present read by Nadine Marshall

• 00:26

  Max Richter arrangement of Vivaldi

  Vivaldi Recomposed: Winter 1聽

  Performer: Daniel Hope (violin), Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin / Andre de Ridder.

  • DG 4810044.
• 00:29

  John Dowland

  Queene Elizabeth, her galliard (K Darcies galliard) P.41 for lute

  Performer: Ian Watt (lute).

  • NIMBUS NI6226.

• Shakespeare

  Sonnet 122 read by Kenneth Cranham

• 00:32

  Orlando Gibbons

  Fantasia a 4

  Performer: Parley of Instruments.

  • HYPERION CDA66395.

• Andrew McMillan

  A Gift read by Kenneth Cranham

• Amy Lowell

  A Gift read by Nadine Marshall

• 00:38

  Cilea

  Adriana Lecouvreur, Act 4: "Poveri fiori" (Adriana Lecouvreur)

  Performer: Maria Callas (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra / Tullio Serafin.

  • Warner from Callas sings Operatic Arias - Callas Remastered.

• Hillaire Belloc

  On the Gift of a Book to a Child read by Kenneth Cranham

• 00:43

  Ravel

  Ma mere l'oye - suite vers. for orchestra, Le Jardin feerique

  Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic / Carlo Maria Giulini.

  • DG 4778840.
• 00:45

  罢谤盲诲

  Raag Pahadi

  Performer: Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (sitar), Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute), Brij Bhushan Kabra (guitar), Manikrao Popatkar (table).

  • HEMISPHERE, CDEMC3707.

• Rabindranath Tagore

  The Gift read by Nadine Marshall

• 00:49

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  The Sleeping beauty - suite (Op.66a), Introduction (The lilac fairy)

  Performer: Berlin Philharmonic / Mstislav Rostropovich.

  • DG 4779191.

• Alexandre Perrault translated by

  Extract from The Sleeping Beauty read by Kenneth Cranham

• Helen Fielding

  Extract from Bridget Jones聮 Diary read by Nadine Marshall

• 00:56

  Vince Guaraldi Trio

  O Tannenbaum

  Performer: Vince Guaraldi Trio.

  • From Desktop Jukebox.

• Thomas Dallam

  Extract from the Diaries of Thomas Dallam read by Kenneth Cranham

• 01:03

  ANON

  A Solis Ortus, Verse IV

  Performer: Carl Smith (organ).

  • NAXOS, 8.570142.
• 01:04

  Leopold Mozart

  Symphony in C major "Toy": 1st movement; Allegro

  Performer: Orchestra of St John's / John Lubbock.

  • Sanctuary CD RSN3072.

• Carol Ann Duffy

  December read by Nadine Marshall

• 01:09

  Leigh Harline

  When You Wish Upon a Star

  Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

  • From Desktop Jukebox.