Allow me to add a suggestion:
Jean Shepherd, a New York writer and radio personality from the 50s through the 70s, wrote some stories for Playboy magazine, one of which was the source for the Christmas Story movie tale about the Red Ryder BB gun.
A number of those stories were assembled into a book named “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash”. In my opinion, the book was much better than the movie.
Here he is reading his Christmas story on WOR Radio from 1974:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkicEleOiTM
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Merry Christmas ping
Thank you for this thread. The mind is a great theater, indeed!
Does anybody recall a reading done for several years on NPR or one of the affiliates that had an older, rural sounding man recalling a childhood Christmas during the depression and in grinding poverty? The blessings he counted for that era were true tear jerkers.
I heard it for a couple years when I could still stand to listen to NPR and that was many years ago. I was always shocked that they would air such a rustic tribute to God, America and the traditional family.
God bless all of you and have a very merry Christmas!
Thank you, BluesDuke, and Merry Christmas!
Thanks and love reading your site. Merry Christmas.
I fondly remember the children’s OTR show “The Cinnamon Bear” which ran 6 days a week between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I remember the Wintergreen Witch and the Crazy Quilt Dragon.
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