"means it remains one of the most magical Yuletide dramas that the BBC has ever made."" The Box of Delights (TV series) The Box of Delights is a BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield's children's fantasy novel ""The Box of Delights"" starring Devin Stanfield, Patrick Troughton and Robert Stephens. It was broadcast on BBC1 between 21 November and 24 December 1984. The series was adapted from Masefield's novel by Alan Seymour, directed by Renny Rye and produced by Paul Stone. The series is a fantasy adventure about a schoolboy who is entrusted with a magical box which allows him to"
"lack of aid from the local police, Kay manages to discover the location of Abner Brown, who seeks to capture the famed Box of Delights. The abduction of Cole Hawlings, owner of the box, marks a turning point in the story, as Kay and friends (namely Maria, Susan, Jemima and Peter Jones) go in search of his abductor with the assistance of Herne the Hunter and various others. Kay eventually manages to thwart the plans of Abner Brown by rescuing Cole Hawlings (and the choirboys) from Brown's subterranean dungeon. The story concludes with great festivities on Christmas Eve as the"
"They develop an instant rapport, which leads Cole to confide that he is being chased by a magician called Abner Brown and his gang, which includes Kay's former governess. For safety, Cole (who turns out to be the medieval philosopher and alleged magician Ramon Llull) entrusts the box to Kay. The schoolboy then goes on to have many adventures as he protects the box from those who wish to use it for bad deeds. There have been several radio adaptations of ""The Box of Delights"". This six-part adaptation, with a script by Robert Holland and John Keir Cross, was produced"
"Kay Harker Kay Harker is a fictional character, the young hero of the books ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"" by John Masefield, and the BBC series of ""The Box of Delights"". The series ran in 1984, where the character was played by actor Devin Stanfield. Kay is of an unspecified age, and the book follows his adventures one Christmas Holiday alongside his contemporaries who are staying for the holidays. Kay Harker plays a key role in ""The Box of Delights"", in which he leads the way in the hunt for the infamous Abner Brown. Despite a complete"
"firing her airgun. Sisters Jemima and Susan Jones play a minor role in the series, and feature briefly in Episode 1 and elsewhere as stock family members. Kay Harker Kay Harker is a fictional character, the young hero of the books ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"" by John Masefield, and the BBC series of ""The Box of Delights"". The series ran in 1984, where the character was played by actor Devin Stanfield. Kay is of an unspecified age, and the book follows his adventures one Christmas Holiday alongside his contemporaries who are staying for the holidays. Kay"
"a Christmas story by Alphonse Daudet, published in 1875 in the ""Tales of Monday"" and integrated in 1879 in the collection of the ""Letters from my Windmill"". The story is at the end of the eighteenth century, in an imaginary Provencal castle. Pleasant and irreverent, tinged with fantasy, it depicts a priest guilty of the sin of gluttony. Tempted by the devil who, in the guise of his young sexton, has described to him in great detail the exquisite menu of New Year's Eve, he sends off three Christmas Masses to rush more quickly to the table. God punishes his"
"adventures across time as he protects the box from Abner Brown. During his travels, Kay encounters many characters drawn from English folklore, history and pagan mythology including Herne the Hunter, King Arthur, Father Christmas, unicorns, Roman soldiers and medieval monks. Jenny Shirt of ""We Are Cult"" notes that ""The Box of Delights"" features a recurring ""motif of the intertwining of paganism and Christianity"". The series was first shown in six half-hour episodes in November and December 1984. BBC Worldwide released the serial on DVD in 2004. During December 1986 the series was repeated on BBC1 as three 50-minute episodes: The"
"Toyshop"", """"A classic crime novel with a surreal streak… It's a clever, energetic romp, written with wit"", while A. L. Kennedy described Crispin as, ""One of the undiscovered treasures of British crime fiction: [his] storytelling is intelligent, humane, surprising and rattling good fun."" The Moving Toyshop The Moving Toyshop (1946) is a work of detective fiction by Edmund Crispin, featuring his recurrent sleuth, Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor of English Language and Literature. The title comes from Pope's ""The Rape of the Lock"":With varying vanities, from every part,<br> They shift the moving toyshop of their heart The novel is dedicated"
"three times by the BBC as part of its ""Children's Hour"", in 1943, 1948 and 1955. This was a one-off drama, with a script by John Keir Cross, broadcast in 1966, and repeated in 1968 and 1969. It was then remade with a new cast in 1977. Two-part drama with a script by John Peacock. A BBC TV adaptation of ""The Box of Delights"" was broadcast in six parts between 21 November and 24 December in 1984. It starred Devin Stanfield, Patrick Troughton and Robert Stephens as Kay Harker, Cole Hawlings and Abner Brown respectively and adapted for television by"
"Jack-in-the-Box (short story) Jack-in-the-Box is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury, first published as part of the 1947 short story collection ""Dark Carnival"". It was later collected in the magazine Avon Fantasy Reader and the anthologies Interplanet7: Fantascienza, The Small Assassin, Ghostly and Ghastly, and The Stories of Ray Bradbury. Living apart from the outside world, Edwin shares residence with his mother in a vast secluded mansion. She raises him to be god; telling him that his father, the original god, was killed by beasts from outside the estate, and that if he ever extricates himself he too"
"brief spell behind the lines. John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon"
"The Tinder Box (novella) The Tinder Box (1999) is a crime novella by English writer Minette Walters. First published in Dutch as part of their annual ""BookWeek"" scheme, the story wasn't available in English until 2004. Following the savage murders of Lavinia Fanshaw and her personal nurse, Dorothy Jenkins, in the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordian is arrested for the crime, stirring up violent racial hatred from the other residents against his family. Friend and neighbour Siobhan Lavenham suspects that Patrick was the victim of an already prejudiced investigation, and defies her community so she can"
"The Christmas Box The Christmas Box () is an American novel written by Richard Paul Evans and self-published in 1993. A Christmas story purportedly written for his children, the book was advertised locally by Evans, who was working at the time as an advertising executive. He placed the book in Utah stores and it became a local best-seller. This got the attention of major publishers who bid against each other, resulting in Evans receiving several million dollars for the publishing rights. Released in hardcover in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, ""The Christmas Box"" became the first book to simultaneously reach"
"dangerous. MacArthur was allowed to spend Christmas Day 2005 with a relative outside prison and was also allowed a five-hour Christmas parole in 2006. MacArthur was released from Shelton Abbey prison on 17 September 2012. MacArthur's story inspired John Banville's 1989 novel, ""The Book of Evidence"". GUBU The phrase grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented was paraphrased from a comment by then Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, Charles Haughey, while describing a strange series of incidents in the summer of 1982 that led to a double-murderer, Malcolm MacArthur, being apprehended in the house of the Irish Attorney General Patrick Connolly. The"
"commissioned for his wedding, which will take place on Christmas morning. While the cat is gone, he frees the mice from teacups where Simpkin has imprisoned them. When Simpkin returns and finds his mice gone, he hides the twist in anger. When the tailor falls ill, the mice save the day by completing the coat. (One buttonhole remains incomplete because the mice run out of twist). The Tailor of Gloucester (film) The Tailor of Gloucester is a television Christmas special first broadcast on 28 December 1989 on ITV. It is based on the children's story by Beatrix Potter. The film"
"treats everyone with kindness, generosity and compassion, embodying the spirit of Christmas. The writer Charles Dickens was born to a middle class family which got into financial difficulties as a result of the spendthrift nature of his father John. In 1824 John was committed to the Marshalsea, a debtors' prison in Southwark, London. Dickens, aged 12, was forced to pawn his collection of books, leave school and work at a dirty and rat-infested shoe-blacking factory. The change in circumstances gave him what his biographer, Michael Slater, describes as a ""deep personal and social outrage"", which heavily influenced his writing and"
"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box ""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the second of the twelve ""Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"" in most British editions of the canon, and the second of the eight stories from ""His Last Bow"" in most American versions. The story was first published in ""The Strand Magazine"" in 1893. Miss Susan Cushing of Croydon receives a parcel in the post that contains two severed human ears packed in coarse salt. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard suspects"
"abducted make their way back home in time for the Christmas Service. The story concludes with Kay's re-awakening on the train home for the start of the Christmas holidays, with the realisation that the story was nothing more than a dream. In the book and the BBC series, these characters play the most important role in the rescue of Cole Hawlings and the downfall of Abner Brown. Peter Jones is arguably Kay's lieutenant, who lends help and company to his friend when it is most needed, notably their dawn expedition onto the downs, where they observe the abduction of Cole"
"Frost at Christmas Frost at Christmas (1984) is the first of the series of novels written by R. D. Wingfield, the creator of the character Detective Inspector Jack Frost, who is more famously known in the television series ""A Touch of Frost"", where the character is played by Sir David Jason. This novel was adapted into the TV episode 'Care and Protection', which was also the first in the series. As Christmas approaches Detective Inspector Jack Frost is on the trail of a sensitive case with limited time to solve it. Tracy Uphill, an eight-year-old child, goes missing after attending"
"John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon after following a mental breakdown."
"to create it. The second box arrives in nineteenth-century England and is found by a child named Alice (possibly recognized by the reader as Alice Liddell), who one day recites some verse learned from one of its contents to her ""Uncle Charles"" (Charles Dodgson, better known today as Lewis Carroll). Intrigued, he asks her its meaning; whereupon she, uncertain, identifies it as ""the way out"". Dodgson, in reply, promises to include it in his collection of writings about the stories she tells him, which are based on the toys from the box. He tells her that, unlike the other parts,"
"prove him innocent. However, after learning of some terrible secret's from the O'Riordian's past, she begins to question her loyalties. The Tinder Box (novella) The Tinder Box (1999) is a crime novella by English writer Minette Walters. First published in Dutch as part of their annual ""BookWeek"" scheme, the story wasn't available in English until 2004. Following the savage murders of Lavinia Fanshaw and her personal nurse, Dorothy Jenkins, in the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordian is arrested for the crime, stirring up violent racial hatred from the other residents against his family. Friend and neighbour"
"and coats back into the wardrobe in the Professor's house and suddenly become children again, dressed in their old clothes. Almost no time has passed in the real world, despite their many years in Narnia. The four children consult the Professor, who immediately believes them, and hints that theirs would prove not to be the first adventure in Narnia, nor by any means the last. The Pevensie Siblings Raised in London, evacuated to the Dorset countryside, and reaching adulthood in Narnia, they are the four main characters. In one chapter, Father Christmas arrives to endow those present (three Pevensies and"
"a TNT television series based on his characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell. Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn starred. ""The Christmas Train"", Baldacci's eighth novel, was adapted in 2017 by Hallmark Channel as a Hallmark Hall of Fame feature presentation. The TV movie starred Dermot Mulroney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Danny Glover and Joan Cusack and was directed by Ron Oliver. Baldacci's novels have been published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 130 million worldwide sales as of 2018. David Baldacci David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960) is a bestselling American novelist. David Baldacci was born"
"knows what has happened. An army of magical creatures is mustered to rescue the missing hero. Meanwhile, though, Santa is released from captivity by the Daemon of Repentance, who has repented the kidnapping. Santa meets the army on its way, and turns it back from attacking the daemons. ""A Kidnapped Santa Claus"" appeared in an anthology of Christmas stories in 1915; ""The Baum Bugle"" reprinted it for Christmas in 1968. The story was released in book form in 1969, with a Foreword by Martin Williams and new illustrations by Richard Rosenblum. It has appeared in multiple editions in multiple forms"
"The Christmas Mystery The Christmas Mystery (Norwegian: ""Julemysteriet"") is a 1992 Norwegian novel for children by Jostein Gaarder. The story has one chapter for each day of Advent. Using the device of a ""Story within a story"", a young boy, Joachim, reads a story hidden behind each window in an advent calendar that he bought on November 30; every day, he finds small piece of paper from the doors of the calendar that tells the story of Elisabet Hansen, who chases a toy lamb that has come to life from an Oslo department store. The story within the advent calendar"
"upturned palms and outstretched wings. The word ""hope"" appears on the angel's right wing. When reports surfaced that grieving parents were seeking the statue, Evans commissioned the construction of an angel statue matching the description in ""The Christmas Box"". In 1994, it was placed in Salt Lake City, Utah on land donated by the city. As of June 2014, over 120 Christmas Box Angels have been erected, mostly in the United States. The Christmas Box The Christmas Box () is an American novel written by Richard Paul Evans and self-published in 1993. A Christmas story purportedly written for his children,"
"Treasure Box Treasure Box (1996) is the second horror novel by Orson Scott Card. It takes place in modern-day America. The plot details a middle-aged man, Quentin Fears (pronounced ""fierce""), who marries a woman who turns out to be from a strange family. The story unfolds as Quentin tries to stop a witch in the family from unleashing a great evil upon the world. As many of Card's other literature, a Christian/Mormon influence is present in this book. ""Publisher's Weekly"" complimented the plot and characters. ""Kirkus Reviews"" also cited strong characterization, but said the plot was neither realistic nor surprising."
"Treasure Box Treasure Box (1996) is the second horror novel by Orson Scott Card. It takes place in modern-day America. The plot details a middle-aged man, Quentin Fears (pronounced ""fierce""), who marries a woman who turns out to be from a strange family. The story unfolds as Quentin tries to stop a witch in the family from unleashing a great evil upon the world. As many of Card's other literature, a Christian/Mormon influence is present in this book. ""Publisher's Weekly"" complimented the plot and characters. ""Kirkus Reviews"" also cited strong characterization, but said the plot was neither realistic nor surprising."
"The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the writer's two most famous detectives. It retailed in the UK for twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and comprises six cases. It was not published in the US although the stories it contains were published in other volumes"
"Box"", inspired by the Biblical/Quranic account of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, was published by Two Ravens Press in August 2009 and has been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011. The novel is set in Scotland, England, Sicily and Pakistan. Saadi was also a contributor to ""Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology"" (Edinburgh, 2010) → ""Note on web searches: Saadi will occasionally be found misspelled as Saadhi."" Reviews and interviews relating to the novel, ""Joseph's Box"" can be located at the following sites: Suhayl Saadi Suhayl Saadi (born 1961, Beverley, Yorkshire) is a physician, author and dramatist"
"who has apparently been sent up to guide him in. His attempts to find a rational explanation for his eventual rescue prove as troublesome as his experience. However, some time after he lands at the airfield—the fictional RAF Minton—he learns that his saviour was Johnny Kavanagh, a wartime RAF pilot who had been stationed at Minton and who had guided crippled bombers home. The Vampire pilot also learns that Kavanagh disappeared over the North Sea in his Mosquito on his last mission, on Christmas Eve 1943, exactly fourteen years before. Forsyth created this original work as a Christmas gift to"
"The Father Christmas Letters The Father Christmas Letters, also known as Letters from Father Christmas, are a collection of letters written and illustrated by J. R. R. Tolkien between 1920 and 1942 for his children, from Father Christmas. They were released posthumously by the Tolkien estate on 2 September 1976, the 3rd anniversary of Tolkien’s death. They were edited by Baillie Tolkien, second wife of his youngest son, Christopher. The book was warmly received by critics, and it has been suggested that elements of the stories inspired parts of Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"". The stories are told in"