Live eventSwansea
The Chimes - A Live Radio Play
Swansea Grand TheatreSwansea
5 December 2026 · 19:30
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'A Festive Story to Ring the Old Year Out and the New Year In.'Lighthouse Theatre and Pontardawe Arts Centre present WAFR: Playhouse of the AirIt is Christmas 1950 in New York and the actors of WAFR: Playhouse of the Air gather for their annual festive broadcast...There is a new government, a new hope, a new world, so what better than a new play? And there is no better storyteller than Charles Dickens - and there is no better man to keep Christmas than he!Trotty Veck is a ticket-porter – a man who fetches and carries packages, letters and deliveries for a small sixpence here and there. He doesn’t have much but he is happy, gentle and lives a simple, obedient life.That life is given its order by the sound of the bells of his local church – breakfast, lunch, dinner all from the sound of the bells. He sometimes even hears them speaking to him…In the run-up to the festive season Trotty falls
