The Christmas Collection
Selected by Christina Hardyment

Read by Peter Jeffrey, John Moffatt, David Timson, Susan Engel, Simon Harris, Liza Ross, and Benjamin Soames

UNABRIDGED

Produced by Nicolas Soames

Christmas brings out the best and worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the ‘many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas’ there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers, made mystical in stories ... and summed up in a line by the poet Elizabeth Jenkins:
‘The hush, the star, the baby, people being kind again’.

2 CDs
Running Time: 2:31:07
ISBN: 9-62634-149-1
Catalogue no: NA214912
US SRP: $17.98 / CANADA SRP: Can$23.95

Also available in a box set with A Christmas Carol