Christmas Through the Years in Chicago
The end of the year is always a time for reminiscing. These podcasts are based on the long-running radio series I used to do in Chicago. They are called Christmas Past and concern the news, the music and the sweetness of Christmastimes in the past.
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Episodes
Nov 18, 2023
Nov 18, 2023
4 min
This was a subdued Christmas, coming just weeks after the assassination of a president. On the other hand, the music was pretty good, at least to a certain generation.
Nov 16, 2023
Nov 16, 2023
3 min
Christmas, 2003: American soldiers were hunkered down in Iraq; Chicagoans came to the rescue after burglars stole a large quantity of toys meant for poor kids; parents might have been flummoxed by the new technologies the kids wanted.
Nov 16, 2023
Nov 16, 2023
3 min
A golden oldie broadcast in 1993 detailing the wartime Christmas of 1943, complete with an Edward R Murrow report on a bombing mission and Lionel Barrymore playing Scrooge in the radio version of "A Christmas Carol."
Nov 11, 2023
Nov 11, 2023
3 min
The drama of a Christmastime kidnapping of a little girl, the top tunes of the year, toys and that new thing, a computer, under the Christmas tree.