Told After Supper
Written by Jerome K. Jerome
Narrated by Robert Bethune and Susie Berneis
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A few selected Christmas poems and stories rounds out the program, including the classic story of the Nativity from the Bible.
Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome
First of all, there's a hilarious 19th-century piece you've probably never heard of, called Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome. It's a wonderful spoof of the grand old English tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas--a tradition Charles Dickens made fine use of in A Christmas Carol and other stories. Only in Jerome's work, everything goes hilariously wrong, and the narrator of the story even winds up wandering around on the streets drunk as a lord, somewhat incompletely dressed!
"Christmas Trees", by Robert Frost.
In this early poem, we hear Frost's dry, matter-of-fact New England voice making "a simple calculation" about "Christmas trees I didn't know I had."
"Mistletoe", by Walter de la Mare.
A dreamlike experience of a gentle touch from a special person late in the night on Christmas is as fine a piece of dreamland as one could wish.
"Ring Out!", by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
A passionate appeal that the new year may be better than the old.
"The Three Kings", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The majesty and indeed the worldly wisdom of the three who came to give great gifts to the infant in the manger has never been better expressed.
Luke 2:1-20 (King James version)
In the beautiful language of the King James Bible--the only successful contribution to literature ever made by a committee--we hear not only how a babe was born, but how his mother came to believe great things of him.
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in 1859 and was brought up in London. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later was employed as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of comic essays and in 1889 Three Men in a Boat. This was an instant success. His new-found wealth enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler, a humorous magazine which published pieces by W W Jacobs, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others. In 1900 he wrote a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, which follows the adventures of the three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany. Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War and died in 1927.
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