A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

**** This programme was suggested by Barbara Johnston and Christopher Warren as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Christmas ****

Two friends Wil and Jim look back to their boyhood escapades in a time when:

"the snow was shaken from whitewash buckets in the sky and grew overnight on the roofs of houses".

Anecdotal tale written by Dylan Thomas

Dramatised by Herbert Williams

Old Wil...................................................Philip Madoc
Old Jim...................................................Freddie Jones
Young Wil.............................................Alun Horan
Young Jim.............................................Owen Pillai
Mother/Cousin/Miss Prothero......Lyn Hunter
Mrs Prothero/Auntie Bessie..........Victoria Plucknett
Mr Prothero/Uncle George...........Chris Griffiths
Uncle Ben/Fireman...........................Dillwyn Owen
Auntie Hannah...................................Helen Griffin
Fireman 2.............................................Philip Rowlands
Small dry voice..................................Richard Elfyn
Dan........................................................Owen Bodycombe
Jack........................................................Chris Bodycombe

Music by Andy Price

Director Foz Allan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Christmas Day 1994.

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