Spoken word records hold a small fascination for me; tangible proof that there was life before the internet - or even the VHS. In the olden days, before everything was a click away from everything else and everyone had everything ever recorded crammed into their increasingly tiny phones (someday someone is going to loose all of Western Culture down a toilet) and had it piped directly into their heads through increasingly tiny headphones, people used to buy these big round pieces of plastic and listen to them together.
So throw another bundle of unopened Christmas cards on the fire, draw up closer to the computer with a mug of mulled punch, and and listen to proper actors reading real words.
Hardly a beat in the thing. I meant to post this last Christmas - but with one thing and another... So here it is. Another 50p well spent in the local charity shop.A Christmas Carol - With Ronald Coleman
Mr Pickwick's Christmas - Charles Laughton
