Background:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Shepherd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Shepherd</a><p>I can&#x27;t find a schedule for this on CBC Radio&#x27;s AIH website, but I found this link in a search.  Typically, it was aired on As It Happens on the last weekday before Christmas Eve, I think.<p>It was first read on-air in 1979 and has been repeated annually.  It was written as a ghost story, of a kind, for his wife.