The music on this recording (originally cassette tape) was performed and recorded by school-age music students, participants of the English Performing Arts Ensemble Educational project Explorations in 1993.
featuring incidental music by Graham Lea-Cox
and readings by
Chris Evans, Alan Rickman, Christopher Biggins, Mick Gower, Tom Conti, Juliet Stevenson and Philip Franks and Trevor McDonald.
with
John Suchet reading from Eleanor Farjeon and Eliza Cook
Su Pollard reading from Richard Edwards and Michael Bond
Richard Briers reading from Kenneth Graham
Jo Brand reading Hilaire Belloc
Bob Holness reading from Lewis Carroll
Susannah York reading from her book ‘In search of Unicorns’
Patricia Routledge reading T.S. Eliot
Additional Incidental music arr by Graham Lea-Cox from Hansel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, with the English Performing Arts Ensemble, directed by Graham Lea-Cox. (Recorded on Prelude Records PRCS 2530: “A Victorian Christmas”)