A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

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**** 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. **** To nominate a programme from the archives that you would like to hear again, please email [email protected] ****