Dylan Thomas almost didn’t make it to the scheduled recording session
(for the second time in a row) when the day came to read his classic
story, A Child’s Christmas in Wales. A favorite haunt, the local White Horse Tavern, was beckoning.
But, thanks to a
determined crew – led by Peter Bartok, son of composer Bela Bartok – it
finally came together and on February 22nd, 1952. Thomas read several of his works, including the nostalgic story that recalls a Christmastime when the author was twelve and it snowed for six days and six nights. Or,…was that when it snowed
for twelve days and twelve nights…when he was six?
We’ll hear Thomas reading A Child’s Christmas in Wales from that memorable winter recording session, this morning in the 9 o’clock hour.