HUNGRY: Julia Child Presents "A Dickens Holiday Feast"
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Length: 00:25:44
"A Dickens Holiday Feast" is a gift from the Julia Child Foundation.
After Julia's brief introduction, horseshoes ring on the cobblestones, Big Ben strikes three, and Peter Donat reads of Scrooge, who is busy making people unhappy. The Cratchits are merry, cooking the goose and the Christmas pudding. Old Scrooge has been invited but says Bah! Humbug. Mary Risley shows us how to do the pudding, and behold! Scrooge shows up for the happy ending. Peter Donat, of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, has had leading roles in movies like "Chinatown" and TV shows like Julia's favorite, "Murder She Wrote."
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Piece Description
"A Dickens Holiday Feast" is a gift from the Julia Child Foundation.
After Julia's brief introduction, horseshoes ring on the cobblestones, Big Ben strikes three, and Peter Donat reads of Scrooge, who is busy making people unhappy. The Cratchits are merry, cooking the goose and the Christmas pudding. Old Scrooge has been invited but says Bah! Humbug. Mary Risley shows us how to do the pudding, and behold! Scrooge shows up for the happy ending. Peter Donat, of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, has had leading roles in movies like "Chinatown" and TV shows like Julia's favorite, "Murder She Wrote."
Broadcast History
Started with Julia Child in 1997, completed in 2010.
Transcript
A DICKENS HOLIDAY FEAST
ANNOUNCER: “A Dickens Holiday Feast” is a gift from the Julia Child Foundation.
JULIA CHILD:
Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol" in 1845. People then dressed differently, they ate differently, but they were a lot like us. (FRENCH CHEF THEME.) Hello! I'm Julia Child. And here comes an old-fashioned feast for the holidays.
CITY SOUNDS OF OLD LONDON: HORSES ON COBBLESTONES, BIG BEN CHIMING THREE, PEDESTRIANS COUGHING, WIND BLUSTERING.
PETER DONAT:
Once upon a time – of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve – old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather; foggy withal; and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement – stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark al...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:The young Julia Child said she wanted to be either a basketball star or a novelist. Instead she wrote other kinds of books, and just READ novels. She also loved public radio -- and long ago started to work on a series called HUNGRY. With STORIES about food. Here comes a story!
OUTRO:Dickens wrote a lot about food. Sometimes deliciously! One of his biographers says it was because, as a boy, Charles Dickens was always hungry. Hope you're enjoying this mini-series with Julia Child -- called HUNGRY. ("More, sir?)
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