Christmas 2025
Merry Christmas! The festive season reaches its peak today. And for the tenth year in a row, I'm here on Christmas Day to take a look b...
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Christmas Past
It's the fascinating backstories to the Christmas traditions you cherish. Christmas Past brings you year-round Christmas history, forgotten Christmas fiction, roundtables, interviews, and mo...
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Listen to Christmas Past, a Society & Culture podcast by Brian Earl. Stream 246 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 246 episodesChristmas Memories 2025 - vol 4
This episode arrives on Christmas Eve Eve. It's our final family gathering of the season, where members of the Christmas Past family sh...
The Secret Santa of Kansas City
A mysterious philanthropist spent more than 25 years handing out cash anonymously around Kansas City at Christmastime. Music in this Episode...
Christmas Memories 2025 - vol 3
We're at the end of the last full week of the Christmas season. Christmas 2025 is right around the corner. And today, we're back w...
The Silent Night
During the Great War, the fighting briefly ceased on Christmas on some parts of the front line. The so-called "Christmas Truce" has become a...
All of you on the Good Earth
1968 was one of the most tumultuous years in modern history. But one bright spot occurred on Christmas Eve: an amazing feat that captivated...
The Hero of Dear Old Halifax
A tragic accident at Christmastime in 1917 gives way to a story of a heroic response, a lasting friendship, and a unique Christmas tradition...
Christmas Memories 2025 - vol 2
Boy, are we right in the thick of this Christmas season. Thanksgiving was just a little over two weeks ago. Christmas Day is just a little u...
None Appeared More Astonished
A child's Christmas surprise for his family in 1902 became the stuff of myth and legend. Music in this Episode " Crystal Dreams " — Lit...
The Weeping Waters
In 1953, a Christmas Eve train bound for New Zealand's capital city met a tragic fate. Music in this Episode " Ourselves at Least " — C...
When the Current Was Turned
In 1882, inventor Edward Johnson set up a one-of-a-kind Christmas display in his New York City home...and it changed the face of Christmas a...
Christmas Memories 2025 - vol 1
The Christmas season is in full swing. The tree is up. The carols are playing. The shopping and baking merrymaking of all sorts is here once...
Homecoming
On a cold winter's night, a man working in a field saw an out-of-place object in the night sky. This is a Christmas story, but it'...
The Builder of Tomorrows
Inventor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden received hundreds of patents in his career. And one invention that debuted in 1906 changed Christmas as w...
The Birthday Gift
Teenaged Annie Ide resented being born on December 25 because Christmas always overshadowed her birthday. But a unique birthday gift from an...
Season 10 Announcement, Dickens Fair, etc.
Just dropping by with a quick hello, now that the season is in full swing. Today, I share an announcement about this season of Christmas Pas...
Story Time: Lucky's Grove
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It's the kickoff to the main season of Christmas Past. What better way to get things going than with a co...
Interview: Vaughn Joy, Author of Selling Out Santa
In today's episode, Vaughn Joy, Ph.D. joins Christmas Past to discuss how the social and political climate of the mid-20th century shap...
Interview: Thomas Ruys Smith, author of Searching for Santa Claus
Today, we welcome back a frequent guest on Christmas Past. Thomas Ruys Smith is a professor of American literature and culture at the Univer...
Interview: Alonso Duralde, author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas
Today, I'm talking to Alonso Duralde, film critic, podcaster, and author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (2nd Edition). Music...
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