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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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
John Rutter
The Donkey Carol
Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Rutter. Conductor: John Rutter.- Rutter 鈥 Christmas Album.
- Collegium CSCD510.
- 4.
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol, read by Robert Lindsay
William Dean Howells
Christmas Every Day and Other stories, read by Shiloh Coke
00:06Marvin Broadie
Run Rudolph Run
Composer: Johnny Marks. Performer: Chuck Berry.- School Day Vol.1.
- Top Tracks.
- 13.
Timothy Tocher
Help wanted, read by Robert Lindsay
00:08Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 83 in G Minor, Hob. I:83 "The hen", III Menuet Allegretto
Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.- Haydn Paris Symphonies (Boyd).
- NoMadMusic NMM078D.
- 3.
Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Angel, read by Shiloh Coke
00:15Adolphe Adam
O holy night (Minuit, Chretiens) - noel for voice and keyboard
Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Herbert Adler. Conductor: Kurt Herbert Adler. Conductor: Kurt Herbert Adler.- O Holy Night.
- Decca 4330102.
- 5.
Alphonse Daudet
The Three Low Masses, read by Robert Lindsay
00:19Johann Sebastian Bach
Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata BWV 208
Music Arranger: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- The Academy - by Request.
- EMI Classics 5689532.
- 2.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Talking Turkeys, read by Shiloh Coke
00:26Reggie and the Deadbeats
Reggae Christmas
Performer: Reggie and the Deadbeats.- AW5085505.
- 1.
00:27Pete Cooper
The Christmas Eve
Performer: Pete Cooper.- Irish Fiddle Solos.
- SCHOTT MUSIC Q53074.
- 27.
00:28Pete Cooper
The Christmas Eve
- Irish Fiddle Solos - 64 Pieces for Violin.
- Schott Music.
- 1.
Thomas Hardy
Extract from Tess of the d鈥橴bervilles, read by Robert Lindsay
00:31Trad.
Deck the Halls, arr. for string orchestra
Music Arranger: Bj枚rn Kleiman. Ensemble: Camerata Tchaikovsky.- Christmas without Words.
- Orchid Classics ORC100186.
- 3.
Dylan Thomas
A Child's Christmas in Wales, A Story, read by the author
00:35Irving Berlin
Count Your Blessings (instead of sheep)
Performer: Bing Crosby.- AudioSonic Music 1307362839511_AUDS28.
- 97.
U.A. Fanthorpe
What the Donkey Saw, read by Shiloh Coke
00:38Greg Lake
I believe in Father Christmas
- have Yourself a Very British Christmas.
- Countdown Media 4065142018418.
- 2.
Thomas Hardy
The Oxen, read by Robert Lindsay
00:43Michel Corrette
Sinfonia No. 2 (Six Symphonies de Noel) Allegro - Ou S'En Vont Ces Gais Bergers
Ensemble: La Fantasia. Conductor: Rien Voskuilen.- Six Symphonies de Noel.
- Brilliant Classics 93538.
- S1 Tr5.
Henry Van Dyke
The Story of the Other Wise Man, read by Shiloh Coke
00:47Germaine Tailleferre
Arabesque for Clarinet in B-Flat & Piano
- L'Esprit Des Six.
- Claves Records CD-1804.
- 16.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
I saw a stable, low and very bare, read by Robert Lindsay
00:50Frederic Austin
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Singer: Harry Belafonte. Ensemble: Bob Carman Orchestra.- Documents 2 885150845004.
- 16.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Bleak Weather, read by Shiloh Coke
00:56Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen, opera Z629, Act 2, Symphony in Imitation of Birds
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- The Fairy Queen 1692.
- Signum.
- 5.
00:56Eric Whitacre
Lux aurumque, for chorus
Performer: The King鈥檚 Singers.- High Flight.
- Signum SIGCD262.
- 3.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Barn, read by Robert Lindsay
01:02Max Richter
On the Nature of Daylight - Written on the Sky
Performer: Ang猫le Dubeau. Orchestra: La Piet脿.- Portrait.
- Groupe Analekta, Inc. AN28745.
- 8.
Dylan Thomas
A Child's Christmas in Wales, A Story, read by the author
01:07笔茅谤辞迟颈苍
Alleluia nativitas for 3 voices [Nativity of BVM]
Performer: Jan Garbarek. Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble.- Officium Novum: Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble.
- ECM.
- 10.
Broadcast
- Last Sunday 18:00大象传媒 Radio 3