More Tinsel Tales ─ Favorite Christmas Stories from NPR

Each year, listener’s tune in to NPR for holiday offerings of all kinds: funny, touching, insightful, and surprising. Now anyone can listen to these evergreen delights while driving to the mall, wrapping gifts, entertaining friends, or relaxing in front of a crackling fire.

* In the hilarious “Merry Stressmas,” storyteller Kevin Kling finds that Christmas in his family usually includes some type of family disaster, but it provides a wellspring of memories as the family gathers again, undaunted.
* Former executive Greg Mohl trades meetings around the office for meetings of a more important kind as he embraces the role of Santa each year.

* Commentator Ken Harbaugh wonders at the perfection of the unadorned tree in his house—until his family breaks the spell with a decorating job that might qualify as a crime against nature.
* Alex Chadwick offers a festive reading of the ultimate tinsel tale, “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore.
* With billions of children to visit in just one night, how does Santa make it to every house? And how does he fit down the chimney? Astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson addresses these and other holiday uncertainties as he examines the science of Santa.

With all the promise of an overstuffed stocking on Christmas morning, More Tinsel Tales from NPR is brimming with stories that will soon be holiday classics.