A Childs Christmas In Wales

by Dylan Thomas

For Christmas only, this beautiful story will stream continuously, read by the author.

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http://indyradio.nu:2012/Christmas.m3u

The stream was started at 10:48am Central, and plays for 19 minutes. Tune in any time.

One Christmas was so much like the other, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve, or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

All the Christmases roll down towards the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.

Project Gutenberg of Australia offers the complete text, available from a printed edition in the public domain.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701261h.html

The audio, from a slightly scratched vinyl LP was made available here:

http://steadyhabits.wordpress.com/tag/dylan-thomas/

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