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... 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.

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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

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