December 2024

12/1 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) The Midnight Folk, John Masefield TASKMASTER AUSTRALIA WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/2 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) Handel’s Messiah (London Philharmonic and Walter Susskind) Playtime (1967) 12/3 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) Playtime (1967) 12/4 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) The Midnight Folk, John Masefield The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster Playtime (1967) 12/5 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) The Midnight Folk, John Masefield WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/6 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster (finished) The Seven Crystal Balls, Hergé (finished) Prisoners of the Sun, Hergé Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999) The King of Comedy (1982) 12/7 Prisoners of the Sun, Hergé (finished) 12/9 Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) JUNIOR TASKMASTER 12/10 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Shooting Star, Hergé (finished) Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan JUNIOR TASKMASTER 12/11 Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Midnight Folk, John Masefield Boston Camerata, An American Christmas JUNIOR TASKMASTER 12/12 Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (finished) The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Midnight Folk, John Masefield Playtime (1967) F for Fake (1975) WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/13 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes) (finished) Heroes of the City of Man, Peter J. Leithart The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Robert Fagles) The Choir of King’s College, Vivaldi’s Gloria WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/14 Sufjan Stevens, Songs for Christmas Gunnar Idenstam et al., Folkjul II Comments and Characters, John Buchan Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor For the Time Being, W. H. Auden The Architecture of Happiness, Allain de Botton The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024) Raising Arizona (1987) 12/15 The Architecture of Happiness, Allain de Botton Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) JUNIOR TASKMASTER 12/16 Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor Handel’s Messiah, The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis JUNIOR TASKMASTER WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/17 The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Aeneid, trans. Frederick Ahl The Midnight Folk, John Masefield Raising Arizona (1987) 12/18 The Manga Bible, Siku Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Midnight Folk, John Masefield The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/19 Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor The Aeneid, trans. Frederick Ahl The Midnight Folk, John Masefield Reliant K, Let it Snow Baby… Let it Reindeer Boston Camerata, An American Christmas Anais Mitchell, Young Man in America She & Him, A Very She & Him Christmas Torn Curtain (1966) 12/20 The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O’Rourke White Christmas (1954) Torn Curtain (1966) 12/21 The Architecture of Happiness, Allain de Botton The Midnight Folk, John Masefield The Night of the Hunter (1955) WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/22 The Architecture of Happiness, Allain de Botton The Midnight Folk, John Masefield Eloise at Christmastime (2003) WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/23 Katharina and Martin Luther, Michelle DeRusha Katherina Von Bora: A Reformation Life, Markwald and Markwald The Midnight Folk, John Masefield (finished) The Matchlock Gun, Walter Dumaux Edmonds Coot Club, Arthur Ransome The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis Handel, Messiah Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999) JUNIOR TASKMASTER 12/24 “Christmas Every Day,” William Dean Howells Eloise at Christmastime (2003) THE BIG FAT QUIZ OF THE YEAR 2023 12/25 Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor Vivaldi’s Gloria Choir of King’s College, Christmas at Kings The Star (2017) WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/26 The Adversary, Michael Crummey Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor Coot Club, Arthur Ransome Charles Harper’s Birds & Words, Charley Harper The Wrong Man (1956) 12/27 Coot Club, Arthur Ransome The Adversary, Michael Crummey Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor “Leadership,” C. A. Bach WOULD I LIE TO YOU? 12/28 The Architecture of Happiness, Allain de Botton (finished) The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes Coot Club, Arthur Ransome Deep Wood, Elleston Trevor To Be Or Not To Be (1942) 12/29 Coot Club, Arthur Ransome To Be Or Not To Be (1942) 12/30