... And Yet Another Partridge In A Pear Tree
- Radio comedy drama
- BBC Radio 4
- 1977
- 1 episode
Penelope Keith stars as a woman who receives stacks of gifts from a lavish admirer who interprets a certain Christmas carol too literally for comfort. Also features Timothy Bateson.
Press clippings
My particular Christmas favourite was ... And Yet Another Partridge In A Pear Tree. The joke was simple: the recipient of the gifts in the Twelve Days of Christmas carol reacting with mounting hysteria to the arrival of what turned out to be a total of 140 human beings, 40 gold rings, and 184 assorted birds (one partridge drowned in a milking pail). The donor gets the lot back and serve him right.
Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 30th December 1977