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2 unusual facts about The Box of Delights


Eastnor Castle

Slade used it to film their video for "Run Runaway" and the BBC to film the exterior shots of Abner Brown's theological college in their adaptation of The Box of Delights.

The Box of Delights

John Masefield adapted an opera libretto from his book, also incorporating elements of The Midnight Folk, which was eventually set to music in the late 1980s by British composer Robert Steadman.


Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1: The Early Years 1963–1969

The series was to have included material from other children's programmes such as Roger Limb's score from The Box of Delights as well as music from documentaries and radio, although only material related to Doctor Who has so far been released.

Victor Hely-Hutchinson

He is best known for the Carol Symphony, from which, the third movement was used for the title music of the 1943 Children's Hour and 1984 BBC children's television adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights, in particular the variation on the theme of The First Nowell.


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