Thanks Craig! What an excellent programme, hats off to you and the hosts. As good as British radio often is, there's a tendency to allocate too short a time to guest interviewees and cram too many in to a show. How refreshing to hear you guys cover everything in such interesting depth, and pay such a warm and affectionate tribute to Mr Anderson. I skipped the Campbell show itself for the moment, but looking forward to hearing it in your restored version too.
We're getting an early Christmas treat of Welles biographer Simon Callow's current one-man performance tonight on our BBC Four TV.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001kwgI've got a DVD of him reading in character as Dickens from a few years back, but this one looks like quite a different interpretation.
The BBC are also giving us a comedy Carol as if pre-empted by Shakespeare two and a half centuries before Dickens, in the Upstart Crow sitcom seasonal special on the 25th. It's been quite a good show over three seasons, so hope this one will be enjoyable too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bx3yfsI started seasonal audio not with a Carol, but Dickens' The Chimes as read by Geoffrey Palmer, recorded by Penguin Books twenty-some years ago but only available on cassette until released on Audible lately. I found it an odd mix of familiar and unpredictable, and ringing with some surprisingly strong shades of It's A Wonderful Life!