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With Great Pleasure at Christmas - Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg with a special programme of his favourite poetry and prose, read by David Bamber, Eleanor Bron and Bill Paterson, with choristers from Carlisle Cathedral.

A special Christmas edition of the programme in which Melvyn Bragg looks back at the writing which inspired him when he was a young man. His choices include Dickens, Shakespeare and Wordsworth but also Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and a story from the December 1946 edition of The Wizard comic, in which the hero helps choose likely athletes for the forthcoming London Olympics. Melvyn's readers are Eleanor Bron, Bill Paterson and David Bamber, and choristers from Carlisle Cathedral open the programme with a favourite carol.

Producer Christine Hall.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 30 Dec 2011 23:00

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  • Christmas Day 2011 17:00
  • Fri 30 Dec 2011 23:00

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