In what has become a tradition with this editor, we give you the annual Christmas eve presentation of The Shepard by Alan Forsyth as read by CBC’s Alan Maitland. I sincerely hope you enjoy this story as much as I do.
The Shepherd relates the story of a De Havilland Vampire pilot, going home on Christmas Eve 1957, whose aircraft suffers a complete electrical failure en route from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Lost in fog and low on fuel, he is met and led to a disused RAF dispersal field by the pilot of a De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber of World War II vintage, who has apparently been sent up to guide him in.