Ruritanian Tales For Christmas

Letters to Father Christmas. What is the Post Office to do with them? They can’t deliver them. They don’t know his address. They can’t return them. Who could be so cruel? Irving Jefferson has the answer and it’s brilliantly simple. But reporter Maddie Sharp is beginning to suspect that Irving Jefferson and his plan might not be as simple as they appear.The Elf Service is a story for Christmas in 24 daily episodes, written by tobias sturt and read by Jon Millington. The theme music is Santa Claus is comin’ to town by Riley Farley and their orchestra from The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/). Our illustrations are by Jamie Lenman (http://www.jamielenman.com/portfolio/).The Elf Service is inspired by a true story - the story of John Gluck, the Santa Claus man, a story I heard about on the sadly defunct Futility Closet podcast (https://www.futilitycloset.com/2020/09/28/podcast-episode-313-the-santa-claus-association/), and then discovered more thoroughly in Alex Palmer's biography of Gluck (https://uk.book