Listen with Gilbert: A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Welcome to Listen with Gilbert, Chesterton Radio’s guide to the stories, performances, and recordings that reward a closer listen.
In this episode, we enter the snowy world of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales through his landmark 1952 Caedmon recording. We explore how Thomas’s voice—with its music, pauses, and delight in language—makes this remembered Welsh Christmas feel immediate, and how Caedmon founders Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell helped bring literature into people’s homes on record.
A Chestertonian thread runs through the listening: wonder is not an escape from…
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