Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | A Christmas Memory - Part 1/2 | 20131209 | 'Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning ...'
Truman Capote considered 'A Christmas Memory' one of his best works of fiction. Kerry Shale reads the first of two parts as seven-year old Buddy and his best friend, the elderly Miss Sook, prepare for the festive season.
'"Oh my" she exclaims, "It's fruitcake weather. Buddy, stop stuffing biscuit and fetch our buggy. We've thirty cakes to bake."'
Read by Kerry Shale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall.
Seven-year-old Buddy and best friend the elderly Miss Sook prepare for the festive season. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| 02 | A Christmas Memory - Part 2/2 | 20131210 | The second part of 'A Christmas Memory', one of Truman Capote's favourite stories.
In the woods, Buddy and Miss Sook search for a tree. '"It should be" muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can't steal the star." The one we pick is twice as tall as me.'
Read by Kerry Shale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
Buddy and his elderly best friend Miss Sook go to the woods in search of a tree. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| 03 | The Thanksgiving Visitor - Part 1/2 | 20131211 | 'The Thanksgiving Visitor,' Part 1. Sook invites Buddy's worst enemy to their special dinner.
'Talk about mean! Odd Henderson was the meanest human creature in my experience ... alas I was the object of his relentless attentions.'
Read by Kerry Shale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
Sook invites Buddy's worst enemy to their special party. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| 04 | The Thanksgiving Visitor - Part 2/2 | 20131212 | 'The Thanksgiving Visitor' Part 2.
'I felt Odd Henderson before I saw him: with the sense of peril that warns an experienced woodsman say of an impending encounter with a bobcat. To others he must have seemed simply a grubby twelve-year-old boy. But to me he was as sinister as a genie released from a bottle.'
Read by Kerry Shale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A shudder goes through Buddy. Then his worst enemy appears. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| 05 | One Christmas | 20131213 | 'One Christmas', Buddy is invited to New Orleans to spend the festive season with his estranged father.
'I cried, I didn't want to go. I was afraid of strangers, But Sook said, "It's the Lord's will."'
Read by Kerry Shale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
Buddy is invited to New Orleans to spend the festive season with his estranged father. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |