Christmas Book At Bedtime
By Laurie Lee
2000
First Published
3.56
Average Rating
66
Number of Pages
This recording contains a wonderfully festive selection of eight Christmas stories and excerpts read originally for the BBC Radio 4 series by different British actors:
- Winter (from Cider with Rosie) by Laurie Lee, read by Patricia Routledge.
- Baboushka by Arthur Scholey, read by Diana Rigg.
- Christmas at Dingley Dell (from the Pickwick Papers) by Charles Dickens, read by Derek Jacobi.
- The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, read by Judi Dench.
- Dulce Domum (from The Wind in the Willows) by Kenneth Grahame, read by Richard Briers.
- A Second Christmas in Kenya (from The flame trees of Thika) by Elspeth Huxley, read by Felicity Kendal.
- Christmas Eve in New York (from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) by Betsy Smith, read by Miriam Margolyes.
- Christmas Truce (from A Fox Under My Cloak) by Henry Williamson, read by Tim Pigott Smith. It runs for 1 hour and 51 minutes.
Avg Rating
3.56
Number of Ratings
54
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Laurie Lee
Author · 14 books
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE, was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1934, and the third with his return in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigade.
