Tinsel Tales: Favorite Holiday Stories from NPR Audiobook (Free)

Ho ho ho! Some tips about what to listen to while driving towards the mall, wrapping gifts, interesting friends, or soothing in front of a crackling holiday open fire. In Scott Simon’s contemporary version of the Christmas story, Jesus exists in an forgotten manufacturer near Cleveland and the Three Wise Persons provide Chipotle gift cards. Claudia Sanchez provides Latin accent to “A Check out from St. Nicholas.” Barbara Bradley Hagerty explores what Xmas means for the son choristers from the National Cathedral in Washington, about Tinsel Stories: Favorite Holiday Stories from NPR D.C. (Hint: Handel.) Inside a treasured 1974 recording, humorist, writer, radio personality, and blacklisting sufferer John Henry Faulk tells of “the wonderfulest Christmas in the United States of America.” A boy believed missing doing his thing during WWII is situated in period for his family members to celebrate the vacation. And a Vietnam veteran tells Weekend Edition Sunday about a “Silent Evening” that brought hope to patients inside a armed forces hospital. And that’s simply the star-topped suggestion from the tree. Each year, listeners tune into NPR for holiday offerings of most kinds: funny, touching, insightful, and amazing. Now anyone can listen anytime to these evergreen delights.