A Shortage of Santas

Episode am6 | Published 10/03/2015 04:11
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Surviving a trip to the shopping centre at Christmas time is enough to test the patience of a saint. Imagine, then, the annual suffering of your local Santa Claus. Take a trip behind the tinsel to hear a true account of what it takes to be a gifted man in red. There’s much more to the jolly man than a ho ho ho and a snow-white beard.



Story: Eric Dando
Voice: Eric Yoshiaki Dando
Illustration: Polly Dedman
Sound design: Grayson Gilmour

Additional voices from Haydn Thompson, Dave Sweeney, Gemma Rayner, Livia Cullen, Lily and Gabriel Stockdale-Fulker, and Rose and Thomas Dawson. Special thanks to ABC sound engineer John Jacobs. A Shortage of Santas is a co-commission of Paper Radio and RN’s Creative Audio Unit, and was produced with the support of Arts Victoria’s VicArts program and the Ian Reed Foundation.