A Child’s Christmas in Wales

This holiday season, Hywel Taff Roberts will do a reading of Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” that will broadcast on HBC Channel 20 on Christmas Eve day at 1p.m. and 9:30p.m. and on Christmas Day at 10a.m and 5p.m.The presentation will also air on You Tube and Facebook from Christmas Eve Day to New Year’s Day. www.wildwalestours.com.

A rich jewel of a story, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” features recollections  of a Welsh Christmas in the 1940’s in a small seaside town on the rugged coast of west Wales. It is filled with “sheepish uncles and singing aunts, snow by the sky full, polar cats, sleek and long as jaguars.” Miss Prothero who “said the right things always,” and the terrifying ghost story that sends the boy hero”s scuttling home! Its the best Christmas story since Dickens!

Betsy Neil on fiddle and Hannah Sheridan will be accompanying Roberts to sing Christmas Carols after the reading.

Hywel Taff Roberts is a member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/JOIN.