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…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…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…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…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.
Read more…Father Jon fields requests and dedications from listeners, interspersed with holiday music. From Radio Scotland, the Greetings Programme:
Greetings Program Christmas Special Dec 2007
Greetings Program, First Sunday of Advent 2006
Roger Royle hosts
Read more…A comedy compendium, hosted by David Jason, aka Granville from "Open All Hours", Del Trotter from "Only Fools and Horses", Detective Frost, etc etc and a Christmas Comedy special from 2011, what he refers to as a "the wonderland that is festive comed
Read more…Generally not wall to wall Christmas music, but former host Val Pilkington and current host Sam Oakley serve up a pretty good mix of familiar classical music and Christmas tunes, sometimes with moving dedications from listeners.
Read more…This was from a Podcast called "Grandpa's Ipod"; "Stump Us" is a musical program where listeners send in requests for music which the panel has to play from memory. I have never located any other episodes of this program, it's quite interesting - an
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