Oh the blessed relief to escape the modern world and return to the broadcasting that I knew as a child. The standard was light years above today's BBC. If this was broadcast in 1971, then I was 10. I listened to and watched so much quality then. I was the youngest in the family and absorbed work far higher than my age range!! Thank God! Thank you so much and MORE old BBC productions please!

Every Christmas I watch the movie of this play. The cast is marvellous and it’s a slice of life in England in the 1940s/1950s

@martycrow

7 ай бұрын

Is it available online? (rather than as a DVD)

@barrymccall2482

6 ай бұрын

Several years ago you could find the full film on KZread...But this year only the radio play is available.

Beautiful story ❤

For an hour and twenty nine minutes, everything was alright in the world. Thank you for uploading this.

Lovely!

I listen to this every few months. Restores my faith in people.

Into 38 minutes and it’s amazing! Thinking about playing this for my family at Christmas time! Don’t know if they can listen for an hour and a half though. I’m the only one in the family that listens to radio programs

@FigaroHey

2 жыл бұрын

Try playing it while people do something else - like prepare food in the kitchen or play quiet card games or something like that. You'll be surprised how much attention people pay to a story when they think that it's not the 'only' thing they have to do.

@guyhadsell3976

2 жыл бұрын

I have a difficult problem trying to ‘turn on’ my friends to these. Of course, it would only take one listen to get them on board. I post performances on FB and all I hear are crickets. In addition, I am single and have time for this medium whereas a friend with a family might not.

"The holly bears a savor as bitter as any gall."

I love the movie i watched it 2 or 4 times every winter ..thanks for sharing

Synopsis: It's 1950 in a country vicarage. The vicar's grown children and extended family have come home to be together. But instead of a warm family gathering, old misunderstandings, resentments, and secrets bubble up. How well do they really know each other? And how well does each one know himself and what he really needs?

@trixylabelle8442

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again tottie mae for letting us know a little of what this one's about,

@tottiemae2258

3 жыл бұрын

@@trixylabelle8442 As always, it's my pleasure, Trixy.😊

@trudeyhenley4982

3 жыл бұрын

Nice synopsis. And thanks for posting it for our benefit!

@janegriffiths7733

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tottie as always

@tottiemae2258

3 жыл бұрын

@@janegriffiths7733 Certainly, Jane.

I have this on audiobook and listen every Christmas and love it, good to see it here 🎭📻🎄🍃 Just thought to add, this play was recorded 1971.

Loving this! Gives me that cozy warm feeling inside!

A lovely story with family dynamics being the order of the day. We sometimes believe we truly know someone when in actuality we have built up a falsehood. Very well written terrifically acted play. Hi from Oz. 👇💜🙃

Have watched this many times and it never fails to delight and satisfy a Christmas feeling that I indulge in at this time of year. Brenda

Excellent!!! The film was great too ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Beautiful thanks

How utterly adorable. Thank you.

I wish someone could UPLOAD the entire Movie. Canada here... impossible to find. A Classic.

Very interesting the film version is very different this play is more relaxed and allows the character of each person to become completely open to the story in a much more understandable and innovative way fantastic stuff

Thank you for uploading this. It is the 20th of March 2022, from Ireland ❤️🇮🇪❤️

@mathonamoore123

2 жыл бұрын

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I thoroughly enjoyed this play! Haven’t heard it before. Thank you so much for posting 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊

That brought a tear to my eye. Lovely.

Lovely story, thanks a lot.

Absolutely loved this. Thanks for uploading it,

Thank you very much for uploading. Most enjoyable 👍

Great story ..Thankyou and then I found the film of it on BBC I player and that was a great representation too

I loved this so appropriate for a Christmas story

Very enjoyable show.

Exceptional! Thanks!

Perfect. And a thank you.

Thank you very much.

One of the best

Did you hear what she said at 1:13 :05 : He was brilliant when he was younger and so is all his friends. -- talking about her father : You know if we all think about it for a minute we all were brilliant or clever when we were that age then : right ? --- So either we're looking back ? --- we're sitting in that same living room saying to someone I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that. --- but the people that are looking back, --- a lot of them still have a lot of years to keep doing what they want or do something new. !!! That I strongly believe

The film version appears on TPTV occasionally.

@elainepayne7047

3 жыл бұрын

Stephen Hubber - some changes in the storyline in the tv version starring Margaret Leighton seen in the picture above. I prefer this audio version.

Thank you kindly dear friend.🇷🇺

So good and so timely! Thank you!

I enjoyed this it was well done and a good story. Did we really speak like that. Thanks for the upload 😊

@sislertx

3 жыл бұрын

U mean use more than.2.syllable.words...yes...people also had real.educations.and could do basic math

@FigaroHey

2 жыл бұрын

@@sislertx Not to mention punctuate their sentences and use capitalization correctly.

@rambleon3698

2 ай бұрын

​Lol...😉

Sheer bliss

Love radio plays, love this in film form too, can anyone recommend other winter Christmas plays, or audio books that aren’t murder or horror please x

@ChestertonRadio

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening. You'll find a variety of Christmas shows in our playlist: Christmas.ChestertonRadio.com We'll be adding more as we get closer to Christmas

@Pollydoidle

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChestertonRadio lovely thank you so much.

We go along in a family not really understanding each other ...hmmm

Just watched the film with the beautiful Celia Johnson then saw this on your channel 👻spooky 👻

@beebee4095

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, did not know there was a film too and Celia, how wonderful will look it up and definitely watch. 📺.

@timothyj1966

2 жыл бұрын

@@beebee4095 It is an amazing Movie IF you can find it... real Classic.

@timothyj1966

2 жыл бұрын

a brilliant movie

Stephen Murray, (no. 1 in The Navy Lark) was tailor made for this role.....he was the son of the Revd Charles Murray.

I can't find a copy of the film. It seems like the actors here sound a great deal like their film counterparts.

There's an interesting little factoid starting at 46:22. The vicar says that holiday traditions---the holly, ivy, Yule log---have ancient origins rooted in pagan festivities. He says that such customs "are a perpetuation of the old Roman Saturnalia." Thought-provoking.

@hawthornetree646

3 жыл бұрын

No, not perpetuating paganism at all. It is the Christianizing of the Northern European cultures. Replacing the pagan with the Christian.

@tottiemae2258

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your reply! Obviously you care about truth. I've been trying to think of an analogy. Let's say you bought some lettuce and added alot of tasty ingredients to make a delicious salad. Then you heard a news report that the lettuce had the e-coli bacteria. Would you still serve it to your family? 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 talks about mixing true with false. At verse 17 God says, "Therefore, get out from among them, and separate yourselves and quit touching the unclean thing." Hopefully not too preachy.😃 I certainly respect your point of view.

@hawthornetree646

3 жыл бұрын

@@tottiemae2258 thanks for your kind words. Please consider listening to Taylor Marshall’s videos on this topic. He is a Theologian and has studied this issue and would be a better person to listen to than I am!

@tottiemae2258

3 жыл бұрын

@@hawthornetree646 Civil discourse. Isn't it a pleasure!😀 Thanks for the Taylor Marshall suggestion. However, I thought you did quite well expressing yourself. I'll send you a link to an article I appreciated too. www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=2015890&srcid=share

@daftirishmarej1827

3 жыл бұрын

@@tottiemae2258 I have to say I enjoyed your link! years ago I must have read the original! 😉 There was a whole worldwide thing over the Summer too - about Joy. Oh how we need it in these trying times. I've found so many helpful articles and videos on jw.org Take care me dear and stay safe - online until further notice 😘

Are there any other plays by this writer? Thank you.

@rambleon3698

2 ай бұрын

A question of fact , is by this author and the play is very engaging.

Anyone know name of the song? The music?

Has anyone seen the movie?

The root of all religions in the world (...) the need to make sense of this world

@sislertx

3 жыл бұрын

No not all...one.just hides.behind the word...

why is the volume always set so low?

The movie version is marvelous.. But it does lack most of the more interesting dialogue that the original stage play has.

I've listened to this twice. I've watched the movie as well. I think it is awful. To each his own.

I do not like david the the scots man What an awful man being very foeceful and pestering a woman to marry him. Ugh.

@elainepayne7047

3 жыл бұрын

dorothy jacobs - he sounded too old for this role.

Every Church dramatic society would produce this in England - family issues hidden, if veiled, a la 50's - we all had such trouble with family development then. Alcoholics, two "old maids". Strident career development and secrets - everything was a secret. Charming, but thank the Lord for personal development - Tennessee Williams had the American version of these themes down pat. Gay guys trapped in closets - good period piece - thank goodness its over

@FigaroHey

2 жыл бұрын

Tennessee Williams wrote - and re-wrote and regurgitated and re-wrote - his own personal and family pathology. He by no means wrote anything that was a realistic reflection of healthy personalities or families. I taught Tennessee Williams's writing for years in a college in a European country marked by stupendously healthy and well-functioning families (year after year, students said in all candor that their parents were their best friends in the world). Brilliantly written, but the subject matter was like wading through a sewer. Sad, sad man. My students always found a kind of ironic poetry in him dying a death that would have been perfect in one of his plays. Squalid is the best word for it. I never met a healthy nature who could sympathize with any Tennessee Williams character. Indeed, in more than 20 years of teaching him, I only had one student who had sympathy for Blanche du Bois, and it was because she had a friend who had ruined herself through similar promiscuity and had ended up in a mental institution as a result. She felt sorry for Blanche because she loved someone who was similarly scarred and similarly self-destructive and she could not do anything to help her. But she was the only student - male or female - who felt that any Tennessee Williams character resonated as realistic or sympathetic or normally human and relatable. I could demonstrate that Williams wrote masterly prose, but I could not persuade anyone that he portrayed real life.

I really hope the author meant to make me dislike just about everyone.

No, Christmas doesn’t have its roots in the old Pagan festivities. Dec 25 is based on when Mary received the announcement of her delivery of Jesus. The month was calculated from the Jewish calendar (our March) and synchronous with cousin Elizabeth’s pregnancy. The tree of Paradise and all the rest have roots in Christianity and the Bible, God’s truth. Yes, much is distorted and overlooked or denied by humanity per an interpretation of this story. I suspect that Chesterton would have cut through all that to get to our foundations. Post-modern thought doesn’t help much as it makes everything in life about self and one’s idols, not God. Even in the 50’s that counter cultural revisionist project was well underway as is evident in the plot. There are redeeming human qualities that, by design, linger.

@susanbaker8130

7 ай бұрын

Some of that post-modern revisionism extols tolerance of others’ beliefs as equivalent to accepting them. And it’s interesting that only some beliefs-like Christianity-must do the accepting, then changing. Even in today’s churches, orthodox Christianity and Biblical principles are to prove their tolerance by abandoning those beliefs in favor of others. The reverse, however, is not required. These clues give us insight into the longterm project at work: Redefining language-one of our human foundations-and all human institutions, Biblical principles and common sense beliefs. Most people finally suspect this (in 2023) but are, for the time being, sufficiently intimidated so virtue signal their surrender of those “intolerant” views of the past-making way for the new totalitarianism from the me-gods. (Time’s a’wastin’, so no holding back here.)

I’m getting more and more annoyed by the barrage of advertisements on this channel it really interrupts the flow and enjoyment of the play. Aunt Brigette has the most phoney Irish accent I ever heard.

@ChestertonRadio

6 ай бұрын

Sorry about that. We're trying to remove those. Please let us know if you run across ads during the shows. Thank you.

How changed are times! The patriarch being waited on, the sexist expectations, the compartmenting of emotions and family secrets behind closed doors. Unhealthy and wasteful of life. This play, among others, will be looked on as an anachronistic view of the English manners.

@mariebotha4478

3 ай бұрын

And so it's quite alright & acceptable to live a narsisistic, self -centred life?

@rambleon3698

2 ай бұрын

Not like today huh, where everyone tells you the inner workings of their minds as soon as you meet them .. I much prefer a little mystery in my associations.

Enjoyed this old-fashioned drama but much too long and drawn out. One hour is long enough to tell the story.

Very depressing people. They are ruining this up coming Christmas for me. I'm very attempted not to finish listening to it.

@timothyj1966

2 жыл бұрын

OMG have you never had a Christmas in your LIfe that was heavy and depressing? If not... you haven't lived a full life. LIFE is about struggle, and when Christmas rolls around...and some years...it's much harder than others... like when you lose a lover, or Parent. etc... but somehow try to embrace the Holiday all at the same time.

@kimberlykasimoff1447

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothyj1966 Christmas is the remembrance and celebration of the birth of Jesus. Doesn't matter what people say it means to them. Your Birthday us the day, and hopefully a celebration of your birth. Presidents Day is in remembrance of American presidents, not in celebration when Americans landed on the moon. I'm sorry that you and others have had unhappy things happen in their life, especially near Christmas, but I, no matter how bad things were at Christmastime, I have always made and had happy Christmases because I understand the true, original meaning of Christmas. So, becoming depressed listening to that radio drama, and not wanting to be sucked into it, I chose to turn it off and listen to something that I enjoyed.

@timothyj1966

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimberlykasimoff1447 THE WHOLE Script is about LIFE and the meaning of GOD.... if you listen to the end. The Father a Parson explains this to his daughter and son... that we must Grapple with it and that GOD is always there