Project Audion presents a pair of special Christmas audio plays recorded before a live audience at the Grapevine (TX) Public Library on December 14, 2025 as part of "Christmas On The Air."
The first show recreates a special Christmas episode of the beloved British radio sitcom "The Men From the Ministry” which was extremely popular during the 1960s and 1970s (and still re-run on the BBC today). The show satirized governmental bureaucracy, but it only aired a single Christmas episode, in December 1964. That recording was subsequently lost or wiped, so Project Audion, performing from the delightfully funny original script, is bringing back to life something which NO ONE has heard in over 60 years! Listen as two bumbling bureaucrats attempt to spread a little Christmas cheer with their plans to deliver "A Present for Norman."
The second half-our recreates a "A Christmas Carol" as it was traditionally heard on on the radio networks in the days before television. For nearly two decades spread across across the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, actor Lionel Barrymore definitively portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge for eager American radio listeners. We recreated his 1949 production with a full cast, right down to Tiny Tim, plus music and live sound effects. It's the voices of Christmas past, here as your Christmas present, as voiced by...
Kim Titus
Mitch Carr
Reg Platt
Susan Platt
Brian Hoffman
Gary Layton
Sheela Bailey
A. J. Glendenning
Pierce Morgan
Chase Morgan
Produced and directed by Larry Groebe
And as a bonus, be sure to listen to the regular Audion episode for December, our fresh recreation of "The Bob Hope Show" for Pepsodent!
