Old time radio Christmas plays -- free, public domain MP3s

Old Radio Fun (home of public domain, DRM-free old radio plays) has just posted its free Christmas collection, which includes the radio play of "Its a Wonderful Life," some Jack Benny, a Dragnet episode called "Big Little Jesus" (!!), and plenty of other great stuff. Lovely hearthside listening! Link (Thanks, Shawn!)

(Image from Under the evergreens, or, A night with St. Nicholas (George C Lorimer, 1874), hosted in the Internet Archive's Children's Book collection)

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If anyone wants to put these on their child’s FP3 player (Fisher Price) you will have to burn these to CD, and then download directly to the player. I hope this helps, there’s some really great stories here.
Derekvof

That’s nothing – check out these HUGE collections of Christmas radio that are being hosted on Archive.org. There are broadcasts of Lionel Barrymore (old man Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life) doing a great job as Scrooge, versions of Miracle on 34th Street (with Edmund Gween is Kris), Holiday Inn (with Bing Crosby), It’s a Wonderful Life (with Jimmy Stewart & Donna Reed), and ton more!

http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeChristmasOTRKIBM
http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeChristmasOTRKIBMpartTWO
Electricdisk

DEREKVOF – I totally agree. I am updating the paged linked to by BB with the links provided above. I am all for the free exchange of PD material. I just don’t have the server space… Good Find. I will update the “Christmas Page”. Thanks. –Shawn