Christmas Short Works Collection 2023
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Enjoy the 2023 Christmas collection, with selections chosen by many volunteers. This year's readings include a combination of sacred and secular; joyful, poignant, and creepy; prose, poetry, and a musical play. You are sure to find something to raise your Christmas spirits! - Summary by TriciaG and Devorah Allen
Cast list for The White Christmas:
Mary and Voice of Angel: Jenn Broda
Joseph: David Purdy
Simeon: Alan Mapstone
Timothy: Larry Wilson
Isaac, Melchoir and Narrator: Brian Fullen
Anna: Lynette Caulkins
Thomas: redrun
Ruth: Norah Nelson
Deborah: Agnes Robert Behr
Rachel: Nicole Wright
Gaspar: TriciaG
Baltasar: Texasbookworm42
Prologue and keyboardist: Beeswaxcandle
Vocalists: TriciaG, Nicole Wright, dc, Verla Viera, Norah Nelson, Alan Mapstone, Amy Gramour, Brian Fullen
(7 hr 12 min)
Chapters
| The Angel's Message to Mary | 10:21 | Read by InTheDesert |
| A Christmas Ghost Story | 1:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Carol | 1:00 | Read by Norah Nelson |
| Christbaum | 1:40 | Read by lorda |
| Christmas | 14:41 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| A Christmas Carol | 1:26 | Read by Norah Nelson |
| Christmas Eve | 25:09 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Christmas Eve | 46:12 | Read by Brian Fullen |
| Christmas Folksong | 1:25 | Read by mleigh |
| The Christmas Ghost: Unemployment in One of our Oldest Industries | 10:30 | Read by TriciaG |
| A Christmas Hymn, 1837 | 3:00 | Read by David Lawrence |
| A Christmas Letter | 2:47 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Christmas When the West Was Young: Stories of Far Western Christmas Days of Pio… | 26:52 | Read by Andrea Kotzer |
| Cradle Hymn | 1:04 | Read by mleigh |
| A Dark Evening | 8:46 | Read by TriciaG |
| Darling | 6:31 | Read by KevinS |
| The Epiphany | 5:50 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Father Christmas at Home | 21:40 | Read by Stacey Malcolm |
| The Heavenly Christmas Tree | 9:32 | Read by BigManDan |
| The House of Christmas | 2:20 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| How to Wrap Christmas Parcels | 7:22 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Jack's Christmas | 19:52 | Read by Garth Burton |
| The Little Match Girl | 5:47 | Read by helensears |
| My Christmas Burglary | 26:54 | Read by David Wales |
| Noël | 2:06 | Read by Sonia |
| Old Hooker's Ghost; or, Christmas Gambols at Huntingfield Hall | 51:40 | Read by Ben Tucker |
| Polly: A Before-Christmas Story | 12:00 | Read by Garth Burton |
| Popgun Plays Santa Claus | 21:33 | Read by Brian Fullen |
| The Three Kings | 3:57 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| 'Twas the Night Before Christmas | 3:44 | Read by paxboltoni |
| Two Christmas Eves | 26:36 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| The White Christmas | 48:29 | Read by LibriVox Volunteers |