A Christmas Menagerie
From 鈥渁 partridge in a pear tree鈥� to Dylan Thomas鈥檚 cats, UA Fanthorpe鈥檚 donkey to Scrooge鈥檚 turkey, Bach鈥檚 Sheep May Safely Grace to Sheep sung about in the film White Christmas.
Robert Lindsay and Shiloh Coke perform prose and poetry alongside music depicting a range of animals and birds: from 鈥渁 partridge in a pear tree鈥� to Dylan Thomas鈥檚 cats, UA Fanthorpe鈥檚 donkey to Scrooge鈥檚 turkey, Bach鈥檚 Cantata Sheep May Safely Grace to Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep from the film White Christmas, Chuck Berry鈥檚 Run Rudolph Run, to Haydn鈥檚 symphony No. 83, 'The Hen'.
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo
Readings
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories, by William Dean Howells
Help Wanted, by Timothy Tocher
The Christmas Angel, by Abbie Farwell Brown
The Three Low Masses, by Alphonse Daudet
Talking Turkeys, by Benjamin Zephaniah
Tess of the d鈥橴bervilles, by Thomas Hardy
A Child's Christmas in Wales, a story, by Dylan Thomas (read by the poet)
What the Donkey Saw, by U.A. Fanthorpe
The Oxen, by Thomas Hardy
The Story of the Other Wise Man, by Henry Van Dyke
I saw a stable, low and very bare, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Bleak Weather, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Barn by Elizabeth Coatsworth
A Child's Christmas in Wales, a story archive reading by Dylan Thomas
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