Blog: Flavours of Christmas

What media evokes the flavours of the season for you?
Call outs to Susan Cooper's #TheDarkisRising, John Masefield’s #TheBoxofDelights and Mark Helprin's #WintersTale

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2024/12/flavours-of-christmas.html

The Box of Delights is back, available on BBC #iplayer to mark its 40th anniversary. Check out our #YouTube about the classic 1980s children’s TV show https://youtu.be/87Cy43sjxE8?si=_WcLoVHUVhYqfZKo
and stream our tribute track Abner’s Dreaming, available everywhere! www.speckled.band

Our annual rewatch has begun! #TheBoxofDelights

Starting tonight on BBC4, a return to magical children’s television from 1984. Forty years on, enjoy an adaptation of John Masefield’s The Box of Delights.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00xgm9t

It’s time… the wolves are running.

OMG! The 1984 BBC version of "The Box of Delights" is coming out on Blu-ray in November! Including new special features, such as "Time And Tide – Making The Box of Delights". We rewatch this series every year in the run up to Christmas! #BBC #80sTV #Fantasy #ChildrensTV #ChildrensBooks #Books #Bookstodon #1980s #80s #Bluray #JohnMasefield #BoxOfDelights #TheBoxOfDelights #PatrickTroughton #BBC #BritishTV #Christmas #Xmas #TV

This evening's performance of #TheBoxOfDelights at the #RSC, my birthday present, is cancelled due to #flooding in #Stratford.

Stay safe. #StormHenk

Enjoying a nostalgic trip back to Christmas 1984.

Done again for another year #TheBoxofDelights

Tonight's #reading. I may not be able to get to Stratford-upon-Avon to see the current #RSC theatre production of #TheBoxOfDelights. But I can read the #play #script book! #Bookstodon #BoxOfDelights #Theatre #Plays #JohnMasefield

Part two of #TheBoxOfDelights - in which an ancient magician who dates back from pagan times gives away an object of immense magic to some snotty nosed public school boy who he’s only just met to “keep it safe”.

Sunday was the first day of #TheBoxOfDelights

Didn’t toot about it because I was outrageously disrupted by the fact that BritBox is no longer carrying it, so I needed to dig out the DVD, which was far too stressful an escapade and put me entirely out of sorts.

I love DVDs (and CDs and BluRays, and vinyl and the rest) but I don’t want to be forced to confront my organisational system. This isn’t Dante, damn it!

Sad to hear the death of #JulianSands confirmed, but relieved that his family have closure now. For #BBC #BoxOfDelights (1984) fans he is remembered in a very small part as a Greek soldier. He was so charmed by the #JohnMasefield book he asked if he could appear in the TV version, even in a tiny non speaking part. RIP. #80sTV #ChildrensTV #TheBoxOfDelights #RIP

Finished Box of Delights last night. It was a wonderful reminder of how deeply weird British people are, and I mean that in the most loving, admiring way possible. I really did think it was fantastic. Hits me in the same place as the Wonderworks Narnia adaptations. Some of the effects were really clever and fun! #TheBoxofDelights

Starting the festive cheese and finishing our latest annual Box of Delights rewatch with episode 6. Such a magical and timeless series, with some superb performances.
#FestiveFood #Cheese #BoxOfDelights #TheBoxOfDelights #PurplePim #ChristmasTV #80sTV #ChildrensTV #BritishTV #PatrickTroughton #RobertStephens

Time to start the #Christmas tradition of watching the brilliant Box of Delights in the run up to Christmas Day. Classic children’s TV with such memorable music.

I know this will interest my friends who watch #TheBoxOfDelights annually.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/12/how-we-made-christmas-classic-the-box-of-delights-the-canal-death-scene-may-have-been-fuelled-by-vodka

New post from Everything's swirling

Advent Calendar - 10 - Mark Peters - The Box Of Delights

Mark Peters recorded this cover of the theme from The Box of Delights for the Sonic Cathedral singles club a few years back and it's an absolute delight.
#PopMusicAdventCalendar #PopMusic #AdventCalendar #Christmas #Xmas
#MarkPeters #TheBoxOfDelights #TheWolvesAreRunning

https://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/2022/12/10/advent-calendar-10/