Aberystwyth is front and centre once again in new stage show adaptation of Malcolm Pryce book

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00:00Aberystwyth at Christmas. Let's be clear about it then. The town in those days was no Babylon.

00:10I spent years operating out of an office on Canicle Street, and you know what that means.

00:16Take two lefts outside the door and you are on the old prom.

00:22That's where it all happened. The bars, the dives, the gambling dens, the 24-hour whelk stall, and Saucepan's ice cream kiosk.

00:34Aberystwyth at Christmas.

00:38The smell of pine drifts along the prom, mingling with the reek of bladderwrack, toffee apple, vanilla, and wet donkey fur.

00:49And in a filthy alley in Chinatown, a man in a red and white coat with a long white beard lies dead in a pool of his own gore.

01:00Santa Claus.

01:03Aberystwyth at Christmas.

01:06Compliments of the season.

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