Christmas Classics — Part 2

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Christmas Classics — Part 2 Part Two of KacheliTV's Christmas Classics season: two Christmas treasures, read by the Christmas Company. Beatrix Potter's "The Tailor of Gloucester", in which a poor tailor falls ill three days before Christmas with the Mayor's cherry-coloured coat still to finish, and the little brown mice he once set free from under the tea-cups come back by night to sew it for him; and Louisa May Alcott's "What the Bells Saw and Said", in which the spirits of the church bells leave their towers on Christmas Eve and tell one another what they have seen from above the city — its sorrows and its kindnesses — before the dawn chorus rings in Christmas Day. Sung carols open and close the episode; while a story is being read, no music plays — only the telling. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this episode: 00:00 Opening carol — "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" 00:40 Introduction 00:52 The Tailor of Gloucester — Beatrix Potter, read by Merry Hearth 18:08 What the Bells Saw and Said — Louisa May Alcott, read by Sugarplum Lark 45:34 Closing carol — "Joy to the World" Read by the Christmas Company: Merry Hearth hosts this episode and reads "The Tailor of Gloucester"; Sugarplum Lark reads "What the Bells Saw and Said". Carols from the KacheliTV Christmas pool: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" to open and "Joy to the World" to close, sung; no music plays under the readings. Sources, all public domain: Potter, "The Tailor of Gloucester" (1903) — Project Gutenberg #14868. Alcott, "What the Bells Saw and Said", from Proverb Stories (1882) — Project Gutenberg #57321. KacheliTV — World Classics, Read Aloud.