The Box of Delights BBC4 7.10

FrankandEarnest

My children watched this entranced - “I had it under my hand” is still quoted when they put something down then cannot find it.

When my house is in a terrible mess ( which is most of the time) I always exclaim ‘but where are the servants’….

Gin

I remember listening to this long, long ago on the radio’s Children’s Hour. It was magical, they re-issued it several times over the years and it always entranced me. It was superbly acted, the rats and the clergymen frighteningly sinister The music that introduced it was Victor Healy Hutchinson’s arrangement of Vaughan Williams’ Ceremony of Carols and it is the piece of music that still gives me that fizzy excited feeling that Christmas gave one as a child.

When and where is the TV version showing please.

7.10 BBC4 Saturdays

We’re rewatching it.

Thanks for reminding me!💕

I remember listening to this long, long ago on the radio’s Children’s Hour. It was magical, they re-issued it several times over the years and it always entranced me. It was superbly acted, the rats and the clergymen frighteningly sinister The music that introduced it was Victor Healy Hutchinson’s arrangement of Vaughan Williams’ Ceremony of Carols and it is the piece of music that still gives me that fizzy excited feeling that Christmas gave one as a child.

When and where is the TV version showing please.

My children watched this entranced - “I had it under my hand” is still quoted when they put something down then cannot find it.

This was an absolute favourite of my now 44 year old son, we even bought the VHS video!

Box of Doolights as my little boys called it 🥰

I’ll be recording it!

What is it about?

Oh just seen this! Will video it!