Saturday, December 22, 2018

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Frederick Forsyth - The Shepherd - read by Alan Maitland



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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