It's time for some great holiday fun! This group is for Old Time Radio shows of this genre and New Time Radio like the BBC. Happy Holidays All.
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Looks like they've found the 1946 radio broadcast of Lionel Barrymore doing "A Christmas Carol". Would anyone be up for trying to record it. I am on Eastern time and not sure if I can make it until 10:30 pm, which an early work day on Thursday.
Read more…AP 1995-12-25 - The Nutcracker Christmas 1996-12-28 - SPH - The Nutcracker Christmas It's Christmas Eve in Moscow and Natalia is in trouble for cutting characters out of her picture books. Her family go to the Bolshoi Ballet and she must stay behind. But left alone with Grandpa Igor, Natalia finds that the story of the Nutcracker can be brought to life at home, with a little help from some abandoned characters and her own imagination. Festive drama written by Nicholas McInerny. Igor ....…
Read more…Movies such as White Christmas and Holiday Inn have helped turn Christmas into a homogenised, cross-cultural, pan-religious event which has been remoulded for the age of mass consumption. As a cultural critic put it, “Santa Claus is to American material faith what Jesus Christ is to the spiritual.” Cultural historian and writer Christopher Frayling explores how Hollywood movies helped to create the modern Christmas, comprehensively Americanising it with the ubiquitous iconography of Santa Claus…
Read more…Neil Gaiman’s perfect Christmas-time fairy tale, brought to life by award-winning dramatist Katie Hims. Starring Penelope Wilton, Gwendoline Christie and Ralph Ineson as well as Neil Gaiman himself. The Sleeper and the Spindle is a new tale drawing on traditional folk stories, interweaving Snow White and Sleeping Beauty in an enchanting drama that puts the women firmly centre stage. In her mountain kingdom, a soldier-Queen prepares for her wedding day. Three dwarves, guardians from her…
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