http://www.trespassmag.com/the-geek-of-christmas-past/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.trespassmag.com/the-geek-of-christmas-past/comment-page-1/#comment-8344 Charles Grahame Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:40:55 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=7525#comment-8344 My great joy on Christmas Day morning when I was a boy all those years ago was to listen to the radio in Newcastle (Australia), the commercial station 2KO which, in place of its usual execrable fare, suddenly played the set on 78rpm of Charles Laughton reading Mr Pickwick's Christmas. This would be followed by the adaptation for radio of James Hilton's Lost Horizon with Ronald Colman as Conway. In later years came the radio version of A Christmas Carol with Colman again as Ebenezer Scrooge. The pictures in my mind from these sound versions have stayed obstinately in my memory. One is reminded of the story of Joyce Grenfell who asked a small girl which she preferred, radio or television? When she replied radio, Grenfell asked why. ``Because I can see the pictures much more clearly'' the girl said. By the way, I am Foz's father. My great joy on Christmas Day morning when I was a boy all those years ago was to listen to the radio in Newcastle (Australia), the commercial station 2KO which, in place of its usual execrable fare, suddenly played the set on 78rpm of Charles Laughton reading Mr Pickwick’s Christmas. This would be followed by the adaptation for radio of James Hilton’s Lost Horizon with Ronald Colman as Conway. In later years came the radio version of A Christmas Carol with Colman again as Ebenezer Scrooge. The pictures in my mind from these sound versions have stayed obstinately in my memory. One is reminded of the story of Joyce Grenfell who asked a small girl which she preferred, radio or television? When she replied radio, Grenfell asked why. “Because I can see the pictures much more clearly” the girl said. By the way, I am Foz’s father.

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