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!
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Thank you for preserving these Radio Plays.
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I saw this play in the 1950's as a child. It was at a theatre on the end of the Brighton Palace Pier in the UK. I have loved it all my life.
I love Christmas and this was a lovely play and truly brought the feeling of a family christmas. Thank you and I will play it I know as we approach the wonderful Christmas season.
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?
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
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.
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.
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
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
Beautiful. Thank you. It's hard to believe that such plays were broadcast as a matter of course. Now at the BBC they pay too many six-figure salaries to presenters to afford to fund such plays. It's probably a good thing as they would have to be self-indulgent, nihilistic propaganda about "climate change" or the "black experience".
SPOILER ALERT: When first broadcast in 1971, this play was likely considered "self-indulgent, nihilistic propaganda" by older, more conservative English listeners. They would've considered it horrible at Christmas to show a family lacking honesty & closeness; with Margaret's 'woman experience'; and J's self-sacrifice exposed as "being so good, it's bad." All in the family of a vicar whose Christmas sermon thoroughly describes the pagan roots of the holiday ... and who chose an atheist as his daughter's godfather. Yikes! Younger people would've liked the hypocrisy being exposed & family secrets revealed. 'Ler it all hang out, man!'
Wonderful, especially the early recording of the 'Holly and the Ivy'. Does anyone know the details of the recording? I'd love to hear the full version.
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
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.
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.
@@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!
@@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
@@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 😘
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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
Beautiful story ❤
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
Is it available online? (rather than as a DVD)
Several years ago you could find the full film on TH-cam...But this year only the radio play is available.
Whe she tells her father that her son was dead, he didn’t seem at all bothered or surprised.
Me too it's brilliant isn't it you can buy the dvd ..its not available on TH-cam for some reason
I love the movie i watched it 2 or 4 times every winter ..thanks for sharing
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!
Thank you for preserving these Radio Plays.
I saw this play in the 1950's as a child. It was at a theatre on the end of the Brighton Palace Pier in the UK. I have loved it all my life.
For an hour and twenty nine minutes, everything was alright in the world. Thank you for uploading this.
I listen to this every few months. Restores my faith in people.
I love Christmas and this was a lovely play and truly brought the feeling of a family christmas. Thank you and I will play it I know as we approach the wonderful Christmas season.
What a wonderful play. Beautifully constructed and skilfully acted.
Wonderful Christmas story. So relevant for lots of families regardless of parsonage life.
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
Thank you for uploading this. It is the 20th of March 2022, from Ireland ❤️🇮🇪❤️
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@@mathonamoore123 well produced and directed. December 2024.
Loving this! Gives me that cozy warm feeling inside!
"The holly bears a savor
as bitter as any gall."
Beautiful thanks
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?
Thanks again tottie mae for letting us know a little of what this one's about,
@@trixylabelle8442 As always, it's my pleasure, Trixy.😊
Nice synopsis. And thanks for posting it for our benefit!
Thanks Tottie as always
@@janegriffiths7733 Certainly, Jane.
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
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.
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.
How utterly adorable. Thank you.
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.
Very enjoyable show.
Absolutely loved this. Thanks for uploading it,
Excellent!!! The film was great too ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I thoroughly enjoyed this play! Haven’t heard it before. Thank you so much for posting 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊
Exceptional! Thanks!
Lovely story, thanks a lot.
That brought a tear to my eye. Lovely.
Great story ..Thankyou and then I found the film of it on BBC I player and that was a great representation too
Perfect. And a thank you.
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
I wish someone could UPLOAD the entire Movie. Canada here... impossible to find. A Classic.
Thank you very much for uploading. Most enjoyable 👍
Thank you very much.
I loved this so appropriate for a Christmas story
Lovely!
One of the best
So good and so timely! Thank you!
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.
Stephen Hubber - some changes in the storyline in the tv version starring Margaret Leighton seen in the picture above. I prefer this audio version.
I enjoyed this it was well done and a good story. Did we really speak like that. Thanks for the upload 😊
U mean use more than.2.syllable.words...yes...people also had real.educations.and could do basic math
@@sislertx Not to mention punctuate their sentences and use capitalization correctly.
Lol...😉
Beautiful. Thank you. It's hard to believe that such plays were broadcast as a matter of course. Now at the BBC they pay too many six-figure salaries to presenters to afford to fund such plays. It's probably a good thing as they would have to be self-indulgent, nihilistic propaganda about "climate change" or the "black experience".
SPOILER ALERT: When first broadcast in 1971, this play was likely considered "self-indulgent, nihilistic propaganda" by older, more conservative English listeners. They would've considered it horrible at Christmas to show a family lacking honesty & closeness; with Margaret's 'woman experience'; and J's self-sacrifice exposed as "being so good, it's bad." All in the family of a vicar whose Christmas sermon thoroughly describes the pagan roots of the holiday ... and who chose an atheist as his daughter's godfather. Yikes! Younger people would've liked the hypocrisy being exposed & family secrets revealed. 'Ler it all hang out, man!'
Sheer bliss
Wonderful, especially the early recording of the 'Holly and the Ivy'. Does anyone know the details of the recording? I'd love to hear the full version.
A good surprise
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
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
@@ChestertonRadio lovely thank you so much.
Thank you kindly dear friend.🇷🇺
I can't find a copy of the film. It seems like the actors here sound a great deal like their film counterparts.
Just watched the film with the beautiful Celia Johnson then saw this on your channel 👻spooky 👻
Thank you, did not know there was a film too and Celia, how wonderful will look it up and definitely watch. 📺.
@@beebee4095 It is an amazing Movie IF you can find it... real Classic.
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.
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.
No, not perpetuating paganism at all. It is the Christianizing of the Northern European cultures. Replacing the pagan with the Christian.
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.
@@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!
@@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
@@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 😘
We go along in a family not really understanding each other ...hmmm
Anyone know name of the song? The music?
Are there any other plays by this writer? Thank you.
A question of fact , is by this author and the play is very engaging.
Has anyone seen the movie?
why is the volume always set so low?
Not on my device it isn't low.
The root of all religions in the world (...) the need to make sense of this world
No not all...one.just hides.behind the word...
Sounded odd to me, her calling her dad 'darling'
The movie version is marvelous.. But it does lack most of the more interesting dialogue that the original stage play has.
I do not like david the the scots man
What an awful man being very foeceful and pestering a woman to marry him. Ugh.
dorothy jacobs - he sounded too old for this role.
I've listened to this twice. I've watched the movie as well. I think it is awful.
To each his own.
Haha! Why did you listen to it twice and watch the movie as well, then?
@robb...I'm a glutton for punishment.
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
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.
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.
And so it's quite alright & acceptable to live a narsisistic, self -centred life?
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.
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.
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.
Sorry about that. We're trying to remove those. Please let us know if you run across ads during the shows. Thank you.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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