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The Box of Delights
Wilton’s Music Hall
EVERY Christmas, the battered old VHS tape of the 1984 BBC production of The Box of Delights made an appearance in my family home and I can still vividly recall the opening credits to the TV show.
So the Wilton’s Music Hall Christmas seasonal offering, an adaptation of John Masefield’s 1935 novel penned by award-winning children’s author Piers Torday, had a fair amount to live up to.
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