BYUradio presents The Christmas Chronicles, a Christmas story for radio that captures the magic and mystery of everyone’s favorite Yuletide character—Santa Claus. Commissioned by BYU Broadcasting, author Tim Slover’s work finally reveals “a true and complete history of Santa.”
The series originated in accounts of the astonishing life and activities of Santa, recalled and told by the author, Tim Slover, to his children over the years. It all started with a strictly scientific answer to a child’s classic question: “How does Santa deliver all those toys all over the world in just one night?” That’s the query that unlocked the grand adventure to keep the magic in and the cynicism of the world at bay.
Written by: Tim Slover
Narrated by: Tim Slover and Richard Johnstone
Music by: Robert Rowberry
Technical Producer: Jacqueline Tateishi
Producer: Judith Olauson Tourney
Production Assistance: Juan Mijares
Executive Producer: Walter B. Rudolph
show host
Tim Slover
Tim’s plays have been produced off-Broadway (Lamb’s Theatre) and in professional regional and university theaters all over the United States and Canada. In 2008 and 2009, his plays Joyful Noise and Virtue received staged readings at the Hampstead Theatre’s Michael Frayn Space and Arch 468 in London. He has developed a special relationship with the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where three of his plays have been produced, two of them commissions. He has been writer-in-residence at nearby Franklin & Marshall College and Penn State University.
Tim’s produced screenplays include A More Perfect Union and Minerva Teichert: A Mission in Paint. KBYU-FM produced his A C.S. Lewis Valentine in 2002. Writing awards include the Grand Prize from the 65th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition; the Christopher Brian Wolk Award for playwriting excellence from the Abingdon Theatre Company; the Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal; a Hopwood Award; and three drama awards from the Association for Mormon Letters. He was also a nominee for a Public and Community Service Emmy from the National Television Academy.
His plays are published by Samuel French and Encore Performance Publishing. Others of his writings have appeared in National Biography of American Theatre and Sunstone magazine and have been published by Signature Books and Silverleaf Press. With a doctorate from the University of Michigan, Tim directs the playwriting program and teaches dramatic literature at the University of Utah.
