While shepherds moshed: A Musical Advent Calendar: Day 12 - A child's Xmas in Wales

Time for a visit to Wales! My mum came from Dyfed (Pembrokeshire)so I wouldn't forgive myself without something from the valleys.Here's bass baritone Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh carol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsjCwTOuPhM

Here's another real Xmas treat for you: a Welshman who became very popular on the other side of the Atlantic.Dylan Thomas reading his wonderful prose poem A Child's Xmas in Wales. Such a wonderful, hilarious evocation of childhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjCJd9Bc-qA

My brother, Don, who lives in New York reads it aloud every Xmas as part of his Xmas family tradition.