Merry Christmas to our listeners around the world. While Mark convalesces from his current health problems, we close out this Christmas Day with a tip of ...
We think you'll get a great sense of Mary Ellin's personality in this show. (That's Mary Ellin with her father at top right.) They gather round Irving Berlin's old piano, the one with the special lever that enabled him to change key while still playing in F sharp, and Mary Ellin recalls childhood Christmases in the Berlin household and the mistake her mother found in the verse of "White Christmas". So, to mark her passing, we're reprising a special Song of the Week audio edition that includes rare material from the Steyn archive and a unique live performance of "White Christmas".