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Book at Bedtime: A Snow Garden and Other Stories

Rachel Joyce

Gemma McMullan

Book at Bedtime: A Snow Garden and Other Stories: Episode 4: Christmas Day at the Airport

A Snow Garden and Other Stories

Episode 4

Episode 4: Christmas Day at the Airport

Christmas Day at the Airport

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, A Snow Garden and Other Stories, Christmas Day at the Airport

Even in an airport of stranded passengers you can experience the true meaning of Christmas

Amidst the chaos of Christmas morning in an airport full of stranded passengers, a pregnant woman realises this is still going to be a very special day.

Rachel Joyce's new collection "A Snow Garden and Other Stories" glides through the festive season with interlinked stories which delight and surprise. From an unexpected birth at an airport full of stranded travellers, a famous son wanting to escape the madness for a normal family dinner, to a divorced father's wish to give his two little boys the one thing they really want, a white Christmas. Five stories as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be.

Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into 34 languages. 

She is the award-winning writer of over 30 original afternoon plays and classic adaptations for BBC Radio 4. 

Read by ..... Rachel Joyce 
Produced & Directed by ..... Gemma McMullan.

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Serialised reading of Rachel Joyce's Christmas story collection.

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