Peter Jeffrey, John Moffatt, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, Clive Sansom, Naxos AudioBooks
The Christmas Collection
Audible Audiobook
(Naxos AudioBooks Dec. 26, 1999)
This is a look at Christmas through excerpts from Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, medieval recipes, poems by John Betjeman and C. Day Lewis. It also includes: a traditional Mummer's play and a Christmas sermon; two Victorian "weepies", "Christmas Day in the Workhouse" and "The Little Match Girl"; and an account of a 16-year-old girl's first married Christmas in 19th-century New York. Christmas music is also included.