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EVERY Christmas, the battered old VHS tape of the 1984 BBC production of The Box of Delights made an appearance in my family home and I can still vividly recall the opening credits to the TV show.
So the Wilton’s Music Hall Christmas seasonal offering, an adaptation of John Masefield’s 1935 novel penned by award-winning children’s author Piers Torday, had a fair amount to live up to.
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