Alasdair Beckett-King
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1,752 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Alasdair Beckett-King’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Before we get too much into the story, we should say that we both read, I think, the nineteen twenty-four edition.
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Yes.
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Not the more famous and successful forties edition, famously with black and white silhouette illustrations.
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Uh which is the one I would have read as a child.
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So I as a child knew them as the Alden children, and most people who know the boxcar kids will know them as the Alden family.
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But in this edition they are called the Cordyce.
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Cordice.
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I don't know why.
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It was rewritten in lots of ways.
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She simplified the vocabulary a lot, which means that loads of the cracking lines that I wrote down as I was reading it are not in, sadly not in the nineteen forties reprint.
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There's some real choice lines.
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Please do.
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opening.
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The remastered edition, the reimagineered edition from the forties, skips over the drunken father a little bit.
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And tries to play down the tragedy.
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Which is appropriate because the book then never mentions their dead parents ever again.
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Yep.
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We've got Henry, the older boy.
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He's about twelve or thirteen.
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He's the dad of the kids, I suppose.
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