Show more On Christmas Day 1937, nearly two years before book publication, five of T.S Eliot's Practical Cats poems were broadcast as readings by Geoffrey Tandy on BBC Radio. The Radio Times wrote ...

While the musical "Cats" premiered in 1981, the story actually goes back even further, to a 1939 book of poems by T.S. Eliot called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." "Old Possum" was a ...