The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Toilken

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Hosted by: 
Matthew Clark
Produced by: 
KBOO
Program:: 
Gremlin Time
Air date: 
Mon, 12/15/2025 - 11:00pm to Tue, 12/16/2025 - 12:00am
Katherine Dunn returns in our Holiday Special

Music for the Season and Stories of the Glories of Christmases Long Long Ago. Fortunato, Producer/Host, with assistance from Umatilla Rose and Napols Yellow. Katherne Dunn, as Red Ryder, reads from a collection of letters that Professor Toilken wrote to his children every year from the early 1920's to the start of The War in 1938, as Father Christmas repyling to letters the children had left for him the previous year. Also, some holiday music and A Look at Santa Claus.

Topic tags: 
Arts/Culture, Fiction, Humor, Music
Genre(s): 
Arts and Culture, Spoken Arts

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    11:57
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