In what has become a tradition for me, I present one of my favorite radio plays, The Shepherd written by Frederick Forsyth and read by Alan Maitland on CBC radio.
Frederick Forsyth wrote the Shepherd in 1972 as a gift for his wife Carrie after she requested a ghost story be written for her. The entire story was written on Christmas Day 1974, and published near that time a year later.
CBC radio produced this version of the story for Christmas eve 1979. It has been rebroadcast every year since.
This has become a tradition for me. As long as I’ve been posting online, I’ve published some version of The Shepherd every Christmas day. The Shepherd, a Christmas ghost story, was written by Frederick Forsyth. This one is read by Al Maitland of the CBC in 1979.
It follows an RAF Vampire pilot on a trip from Germany to England. En-route, his plane has a major electrical malfunction and encounters bad weather. He is rescued from his predicament by the ghost of a WWII Mosquito pilot and his plane.