This remembered snow was not the same as that which we have now: it was a "dumb, numb thunderstorm of white," and far more exciting. At one point, while the narrator is remembering festivities from the past the voice of a small child asks him "Were there Uncles, like in our house?" He replies: "There are always Uncles at Christmas," emphasising that the experience of Christmas does not change with time: it is a universal experience shared by everyone.īut Thomas is keen to emphasise that modern Christmases are not as good as the ones he remembers. He describes an old fashioned picture book Christmas which is meant to be familiar to everyone. It is an exercise in storytelling and Thomas recreates the experience of Christmas as though it were a fairy tale. It is an anecdotal sketch of the festive season which emerged from a piece originally written for radio. Continuing our series of rare BBC Wales archive footage, offering a glimpse of Christmas as it was once celebrated in Wales.Ī film was made in 1965 to illustrate Dylan Thomas' nostalgic Christmas story - 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' and was read by the late Emlyn Williams.Ī Child's Christmas In Wales was published in 1955.
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