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Donna Reed and James Stewart return to It's a Wonderful Life in the spring of 1947, the Beatles' 1965 Christmas disc, The Wizard of Oz, the best radio version of A Christmas Carol, the Super Deluxe Edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a JazzTimes Christmas feature on Louis Armstrong
Christmas episodes of the radio programs Father Knows Best ("A Hans Christian Andersen Christmas"), Night Beat ("Five Days Off for Christmas"), and Suspense ("The Signal-Man" with Agnes Moorehead); Frank Cowper's 1859 ghost story, "Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk"; Dean Martin's 1959 LP, A Winter Romance
Rod Serling's Carol for Another Christmas, "The Missing Mouse Matter" from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, an extremely rare mid-1960s recording of the Who doing "Jingle Bells," some 1966 TV Christmas animation from R.O. Blechman, and Patrcia M. Scarry's enchanting 1970 children's book, The Sweet Smell of Christmas
A full half hour on 1964's Rankin/Bass classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
A Suspense Christmas episode with Peter Lorre, V-discs of Christmas carols, a Christmas report from London under siege in 1940, a radio adaptation of O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," and 1942's This Gun for Hire
Shaker music, the hot start of the Boston Bruins, the "Kitty Caught" Gunsmoke radio episode, the 1972 animated special, The Thanksgiving that Almost Wasn't, the passing of Jules Bass
On bullying, A Certain Ratio's "Winter Hill," an early 1970s adapation of Frankenstein from Spoken Arts, the "Shall We Gather at the River?" episode of Newhart, a video of pitching legend Walter Johnson, and the long lost "The Ride Back" radio episode of Gunsmoke
Talking a lot of jazz and recent jazz pieces pertaining to Freddie Hubbard, Bud Powell, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor
Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre production of "Dracula," 1941's The Wolf Man, the Grateful Dead on Halloween in 1971, a perverse episode called "Weekend Vacation" of the short-lived, virtually unknown radio program, Darkness, and Mary Howitt's 1829 poem, "The Spider and the Fly"
The baseball playoff structure, Bessie Smith's "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," Columbia Workshop's "A Story in Dogtown Commons," Suspense's "The Most Dangerous Game" with Orson Welles, an animated adaptation of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleep Hollow" that is not the 1949 Disney version
Winslow Homer's The Veteran in a New Field, the BBC's "The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula," Columbia Workshop's "Carmilla," the Who in Chicago on 8/24/71, and Bob Dylan in Oslo on 9/25/22
Aaron Judge and the single-season home run record, a piece in The Smart Set on the Three Investigators YA mystery series, The Hall of Fantasy episode, "He Who Follows Me," "The House on Lost Man's Bluff" from The Hermit's Cave, "Evening Primrose" from Escape, Miles Davis's "Autumn Leaves"
Charlie Parker's "Autumn in New York," the recently reissued soundtrack to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, "Song of the Witches" from Macbeth, Ray Harryhausen's The Story of Hansel and Gretel from 1951, the love and utility of a good cup of hot chocolate
Maury Wills, Carlton Fisk's rookie year of 1972, the fun and exploside Milwaukeee Brewers of 1982, the Rolling Stones' Philadlephia Special bootleg from 1972, Boris Karloff in the Inner Sanctum radio episode of "The Tell-tale Heart"
New MLB rule changes, a baseball episode of the radio program Gunsmoke, the Yardbirds' "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," a soundboard of Bob Dylan in Atlanta in 2002, a return to workout in the Bunker Hill Monument
The "Dark Gray Magic" episode of Quiet, Please; the appeal of college football; a new piece in JazzTimes on Thelonious Monk; the 1972 Summit Series; a book-in-progress called The Human Reader: Pain-Free Explorations of Life-Changing Literature
The Beach Boys' Smile project, sessions, and various releases
Discussion about the last three stories in If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope: "Rimer's Boots," "Laying Sheets," "The Taste of Smoke"
Half hour all about the Beatles: the role of childhood, Sgt. Pepper as now-underrated LP, the writing of Mark Lewisohn, The Love You Make, why "She Loves You" is the best song the Beatles ever wrote, and the biggest reason why they were successful
Chris Sale, the Hall of Fame credentials of Stanley Morgan and Dom DiMaggio, Pete Peeters as one of the best goalies of the 1980s, Pedro Martinez's change-up, and who would win a series between the 1975 Red Sox and the 1986 Red Sox
A new short story called "My Nickel," Tony Dow and Leave It to Beaver, the people who gather near the Government Center stairs, the Band at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970
A bit of baseball, and a lot of Beatles: a new piece on "I'm Down," an Atlanta show from 1965, the band in Vancouver in 1964, and "If I Fell"
Talking about assorted episodes of the Gunsmoke radio series
Talking about three more stories from If You [ ]: "One-Way Zebra," "Jaw Bones," "The Ghosts of the Alley, the Ghosts on the Wall"
Athletes who are better than most people think, and athletes who are not as great as most people think; why Jim Rice is in the Hall of Fame and Dwight Evans isn't; the Orioles' incredible, multi-decade run of elite-fielding shorstops; how Bruce Sutter came to be enshrined in Cooperstown
