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.
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.
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 mat
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 o
Read more…By Nina Stibbe, abridged by Sara Davies
From perennially dry turkeys to Christmas pudding fires, sham Santas and the quest for the ultimate party playlist, An Almost Perfect Christmas is a set of hilarious (and highly relatable) short stories and p
Read more…Over the years, I have collected numerous radio shows from the wonderful members of Times Past. It was this very site that was responsible for my love of Holiday OTR, and the epic "Hegel's Holiday" posts from back in the day were events that I looke
Read more…A seasonal and characteristically icy blast from the author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves - and the mistress of "Bah, Humbug!"
Defender of the civilised world and grande dame of comic writing, Lynne Truss steps in to save us from eve
Read more…With Robert's permission, I am posting a huge collection of Christmas music, both pop and classical, ranging from Alvin and the Chipmunks to Zydeco, from Animaniacs to Andre Rieu, from The Three Tenors to the Three Stooges.
There are over 700 albums
Read more…10 Imagination Theater Halloween Shows
Only 32K and 64K but Super Scary
Here is 10 Imagination Theater Halloween Shows that are guaranteed to be some of the very best Halloween Radio Shows from between 1998 and 2009. Some are from a Scottish duo wh
Read more…The AV Club site is a gold mine of both audio and video tresures. Here's their description of this offering:
Read more…Think of them as podcasts from decades ago: Horror masters like Stephen King have pointed to the rich imagination of radio shows as offering
The Rose and the Ring
William Makepeace Thackeray
2014
Unable to find any Christmas entertainment, Thackeray invents his own fireside pantomime - a story of kings, princesses, lions and battles. Stars Prunella Scales and Maureen Lipman.
The Fox at the Manger
PL Travers
2008
When a fox meets the Messiah at the Nativity, he offers up his cunning. Magical story starring Wendy Hiller and Alec McCowen.
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Read more…The Santaland Diaries
David Sedaris
2014
David Sedaris wasn't always an award-winning writer and satirist. For two consecutive Christmases in the early 1990s, he was a Christmas elf at Santaland in the famous New York department store, Macy's. These
This is a brand new adaptation with music by Neil Brand
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It's a single RAR file, containing one MP3, recorded at 192/44
Read more…Here are two collections trhat I've accumulated over the years, with thanks and Christmnas greetings tio the original encoders.
US Radio
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BBC and a smattering of CBC:
Read more…British actor/comedian Leonard Rossiter ("Rising Damp"; "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin") reads Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". This 1979 recording for "Music for Pleasure Limited" runs 1 hour and 50 minutes and is in two parts.
Read more…A delightful and fascinating look at the development of the English Christmas carol, by Jeremy Summerly.
Broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in ten 15-minute parts over the second and third weeks of December 2013, it was (fortunately) repeated in two omnibus p
Read more…A cautionary tale for Christmas; showing it is better to give than to receive, by Brian Sibley.
Stars Penelope Keith and Timothy Bateson.
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