Episode 967
A Christmas Story
Thu, 2019-Dec-26 01:58 UTC
Length - 2:09
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With 215,413 views on Wednesday, 25 December 2019 our article of the day is A Christmas Story.
A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley. A seasonal classic in North America, it is shown numerous times on television, usually on the networks owned by WarnerMedia. Since 1997, a marathon of the film titled "24 Hours of A Christmas Story" has aired annually on TNT or TBS, comprising 12 consecutive airings of the film on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day each year. It is often ranked as one of the best Christmas films. The film was released on November 18, 1983, earning two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:58 UTC on Thursday, 26 December 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see A Christmas Story on Wikipedia.
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