The reading of The Shepherd by the late Alan Maitland is a long established Christmas tradition for listeners of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It makes a pretty good monodrama, as there are only two characters who say anything in the story, Maitland did an excellent job of it. I seem to recall at least one year they had someone else doing it with him. I like the maps in this video, they help to understand the story. A more optimistic sort of ghost story. From what I read online, Fredrick Forsyth was experienced in flying the Vampire, the plane the story happens in from his time in the RAF.
Here's a transcript of a broadcast from the CBC
Another CBC tradition was Alan Maitland reading The Gift of the Magi.
For anyone who might come for the radio drama, I posted a longer one last night, below.
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