Christmas In July

HE WOLVES, TRADITIONALLY, don’t run until December – or late November, if you’re a stickler for original transmission dates – but John Masefield’s festive tale The Box Of Delights has been opened a few months earlier this year as an ambitious new audio drama.

First published in 1935, is actually a sequel to the 1927 novel . Both feature schoolboy Kay Harker, who finds himself caught up in magical adventures. In , Kay is returning home for the Christmas holidays when he encounters an old