Episodes

  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS by Les Standiford
    Dec 25 2023

    Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down…

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    1 min
  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - AN IRISH COUNTRY CHRISTMAS by Alice Taylor
    Dec 24 2023

    A memoir of a County Kerry Christmas as seen through the author’s own nine-year-old eyes. A tender remembrance of a simpler, yet harder, time past. These are holidays as everyone wishes they could remember them…

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    2 mins
  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES by Jeff Guinn
    Dec 23 2023

    This is how it all began. One day Jeff Guinn received an urgent call from the North Pole from a man claiming to be Santa Claus. Lo and behold, it actually was Santa…

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    2 mins
  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE HOMECOMING by Earl Hamner Jr
    Dec 22 2023

    Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of his father in a Christmas story told with warmth and power. Spencer’s Mountain inspired the popular television show The Waltons…

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    1 min
  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE HOPE OF CHRISTMAS PAST by Laura Rollins
    Dec 21 2023

    Belle Young has waited three years for Lord Wilkins to return from his travels abroad—and a full seven years since he first promised to marry her and carry her away from her aunt’s oppressive home. What better time of year for their reunion than Christmas?

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    2 mins
  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - JACOB T. MARLEY by R. William Bennett
    Dec 20 2023

    "Marley was dead to begin with..."  With sobriety we recall an essential player in this drama, paid homage by Scrooge after he proclaims his commitment to alter his path. What of old Jacob?

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    1 min
  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE LAST MAN AT THE INN by R. William Bennett
    Dec 19 2023

    Simon considers himself fortunate after securing the final room at the inn in Bethlehem. While eating his supper, he sees a younger man and his pregnant wife denied lodging at the door of the inn…

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    1 min
  • 🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE HOUSE SITTERS CHRISTMAS by Jean C. Joachim
    Dec 18 2023

    Each year at Christmas, Laura Fleming lived her fantasy adventure. Paid to house-sit for the fabulously wealthy financier, C.W. Banley, while he traveled, she eagerly headed for New York City…

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    1 min