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th year he started fundraising for the NHS, aiming to raise £100 by his 100 th birthday. In the end he raised nearly £40 million, including charitable tax relief. Bill Slim He became a national treasure, but then died, it would seem of pneumonia, after contracting Covid. Sir Tom was a veteran, who did good work in the Arakan with Bill Slim’s 14 th Army. His coolness and old-fashioned sang-froid were an inspiration to the entire nation, apart that is from one nutty Church of England curate, who complained that Sir Tom was white and British. A lot of the blokes in the British Army were. ....
Laurence Olivier Gloucestershire Wassail - Laurence Olivier, Traditional A Christmas Carol, Pt. 1 - Laurence Olivier, Dickens, Charles [1 A Christmas Carol, Pt. 2 - Laurence Olivier, Burch, Bruce Good King Wenceslas - Laurence Olivier, Neale, John Mason
| 12/15/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) I first heard this marvelous Olivier performance as a child in the late 1970s, on a Coca-Cola Christmas promotional vinyl LP. I will never forget curling up on the couch on a December evening at my parents home in the mountains of Utah, the room lit only by the lights on the Christmas tree, listening intently to Olivier s masterful rendition. This is not a reading of the full Dickens text. It was likely done for a half-hour BBC radio broadcast. Even as a condensed version of the original text, it still captures better than any performance I ve seen or heard to date the magic, both chilling and joyful, of Dickens story. I can heartily recommend this to a ....