The Shepherd And Other Christmas Stories: The Gift Of The Magi, The Cricket On The Hearth, Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, Hoodoo Mcgiggin And Christmas Cake Recipe [Audio CD]

Frederick Forsyth (Author), O. Henry (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Francis P. Church (Author), Stephen Leacock (Author), Alan Maitland (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Cbc Radio Canada (December 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0660192829
• ISBN-13: 978-0660192826
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,305,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #42 in Books > Books on CD > Authors, A-Z > ( D ) > Dickens, Charles

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best spoken word cds available!, December 22, 2007

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JC (Grass Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Shepherd And Other Christmas Stories: The Gift Of The Magi, The Cricket On The Hearth, Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, Hoodoo Mcgiggin And Christmas Cake Recipe (Audio CD)

While living in the Bay Area of California we were lucky enough to have a radio station that rebroadcast Canada's CBC radio station. "The Shepherd" read by Alan Maitland was a special on Christmas Eve for a number of years and we made sure to tune in each year. Living now in an area we cannot receive the broadcast we have bought the disk and now have our own tradition playing it for ourselves and friends on Christmas Eve. Makes a wonderful gift and stocking stuffer. Recommended highly.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Christmas Tradition, December 8, 2008

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Steven C. Cross (Minneapolis, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Shepherd And Other Christmas Stories: The Gift Of The Magi, The Cricket On The Hearth, Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, Hoodoo Mcgiggin And Christmas Cake Recipe (Audio CD)

Listening to "The Shepard" is a Christmas Tradition at our house. If anyone doesn't know the story, don't worry about it. Just buy it and listen. The story is good to start but the telling makes it even better. It sounds like an odd subject for Christmas, but, if you think about it, "A Christmas Carole" with three ghosts haunting someone has got to be unusual too. "The Shepard" is in the same genre and just as good.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Shepherd & other Xmas Stories, December 22, 2006

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Consuelo Larrabee (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Shepherd And Other Christmas Stories: The Gift Of The Magi, The Cricket On The Hearth, Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, Hoodoo Mcgiggin And Christmas Cake Recipe (Audio CD)

In Canada people start calling the CBC in early December to ask when they will broadcast the story, "The Shepherd" read on the radio by the late Alan Maitland. I suspect that much of Canada was quiet the last half hour when they just played it on Radio One.
It is a tense & beautiful spirit/ghost story about a young RAF pilot lost over the North Sea on Xmas Eve.
I highly recommend it for its expert narration, as an event for the whole family to listen to, ages 10 & up, & as just a darn good story.

The rest of the stories, each w/a bit of irony or a bittersweet taste, are well done, too.