Various
The Christmas Collection
1997
speech

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Anon / A Recipe for Christmas Pastry (c. 1394) 2:35
2 Romaine Joseph Thorn / Britannia's Housewives Blithe (1795) 2:30
3 William Shakespeare / The Bird of Dawning (Hamlet) 0:37
4 T L Peacock / The Reverend Doctor Opimian Soliloquises on Christ... 1:59
5 Robert Herrick / Yule Log 0:46
6 Nicholas Breton / Christmas Day (Fantastickes, 1626) 1:52
7 John Clare / December 1:10
8 Addison / Sir Roger de Coverley's Christmas (The Spectator, No 2... 2:24
9 Frank Horne / Kids Stuff 2:09
10 John Betjeman / Christmas 2:36
11 Thomas Hardy / Under the Greenwood Tree (excerpt, 1872) 5:21
12 William Barnes / Christmas Invitation Humbly Inscrib'd to the Ho... 1:35
13 Clement Clark Moore / A Visit from St Nicholas 3:09
14 Captain R J Armes / All Quiet on the Western Front (Letter) 4:17
15 Thomas Hardy / The Oxen 1:43
16 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge / I Saw a Stable 0:33
17 Clive Sansom / The Innkeeper's Wife 3:42
18 John Evelyn / A Civil Wartime Christmas 1657 (Diary) 2:18
19 William King / The Boar's Head (The Art of Cookery, in Imitation... 1:22
20 Samuel Pepys / A Restoration Christmas (Diary) 2:51
21 Walter Scott / Heap on More Wood! 1:12
22 Charles Dickens / Mr Pickwick's Christmas (The Pickwick Papers) 4:11
23 Dulcie M Ashdown (ed) / Snapdragon (Christmas Past) 2:09
24 Francis Kilvert / Rectory Christmas (Diary) 3:26
25 Charles Dickens / Everything and More (A Christmas Tree) 2:28
26 Hans Christian Andersen / The Little Match-Girl 7:27
27 C Day Lewis / The Christmas Tree 1:45
28 Traditional / The Finest Festive Feast (1814) 9:27
29 Osa Johnson / First Married Christmas (I Married Adventure) 6:57
Total time 77:22