Sir John Betjeman reads his poem “Christmas“ (1954).

A Merry Christmas to one and all! Read by the author - former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Here Sir John Betjeman invites us to share his wit and his deeply Christian sentiment. Recorded in 1980. Thersites, of writes: “How pleasant, then, to turn to John Betjeman, poet and human being. Human beings are never more needed than at Christmas – poets, too, if you think about it. His poem ’Christmas’, from his book A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954), is everything a Christmas poem
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