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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Tales from Titchmarsh: Festive books

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

With Christmas around the corner Alan Titchmarsh shares his favourite books to get you in the festive spirit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Free! Hello and welcome to Tales from Titchmarsh, a wry look at life over the garden fence with me, Alan Titchmarsh.

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This time, my pick of books for that festive feeling.

1:21.1

There are certain books I pull down from my shelves each year at Christmas to put myself in the mood for the festivities.

1:29.0

One of them is Charles Dickens the Pickwick Papers.

1:33.3

Not to devour from cover to cover, you understand, but to read Chapter 28, a good-humoured Christmas

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chapter, which tells the story of the stagecoach journey to Dingley Dell, and begins

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with the delightful phrase, as brisk as bees, if not altogether, as light as fairies, did the

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four Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the 22nd day of December, in the year of grace in which

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these, their faithfully recorded adventures,

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were undertaken and accomplished. Those few words are all it takes to transport me to the

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