Yesterday I posted five hours of radio programming of a local Washington DC station in 1939. I find these non-dramatic radio broadcasts particularly evocative of the era and the above is no exception. It’s a broadcast from 1943 that aired on Christmas Eve as a Christmas special for those home and fighting overseas during World War 2. It features a variety of music and guest speakers, along with an address from then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yes, I know I should be posting this lovely recording on the 24th of this month. But I thought that a few days advance notice might give you time to re-arrange your Xmas Eve plans so you can set aside an hour and fourteen minutes of your evening to sit, relax and listen to this haunting window onto a very different America in ‘real time’…albeit eighty-two years later.