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A Christmas Carol (Radio Spirits Version - Dramatized)

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Orson Welles, Lionel Barrymore
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Orson Welles' dramatic anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air, infamous for its Halloween broadcast of The War of the Worlds, found a sponsor and became Campbell Playhouse in December 1938. The program continued to feature the charismatic and fiery Welles as both a host and an actor. The great Lionel Barrymore portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in Campbell Playhouse's annual performance of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.©2006 Radio Spirits Inc. (P)2006 Radio Spirits Inc. Entertainment & Performing Arts Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Radio Christmas Winter Funny

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Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol has endured as a beloved story of redemption for nearly 200 years and permeated our popular culture in innumerable ways. From screen, stage, and cartoon adaptations to spoofs and retellings to everyday slang (particularly, "Bah humbug"), the influence of this holiday tale cannot be understated. See how it stacks up to well-known contemporary twists, such as the movie Scrooged, starring Bill Murray.

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I loved the old time feel. It took me back to a simpler time. Lionel Barrymore was brilliant!

Old time radio at its best

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If you could sum up A Christmas Carol [Radio Spirits Version] (Dramatized) in three words, what would they be?

vintage still works!

Which scene was your favorite?

the ending, where scrooge realises he is still alive and it is christmas morning.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

i loved hearing the voices of orson wells and lionel barrymore.

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it's well worth buying and listening to, i plan to listen again. it's wonderful. the voices have such character, and it's unique.

can't beat this old program for christmas!

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love the actors in this version of a Christmas Carol. The old time radio sounds just add to the performance.

Great story

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Wonderful way to get presents wrapped and house cleaned while listening to old time radio show. Put me in high spirits.

Wonderful to listen as you prepare for Christmas

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Simply tremendous dramatic reading. Lionel Barrymore was Scrooge. Well worth listening to. Each part was well scripted as based on Dickens' story.

Orson Wells Triumphs Yet Again

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Fast forward to 2019, the time of day.... irrelevant. we're roused from our slumber to hear them speak of a time we have forgotten, we travel backward to see what we've known, to the present where we must make a resolution and tomorrow we'll do something about it. A bunch of Scrooges we've been, misers with our wealth of joy. we bottle it up and hope to sell it to the highest bidder so we may count the farthings we've earned but we err..... Until today, when these men of old with a story even older yet new in our own, open our eyes to the dark we've embraced but no more. might the voices of Orson Welles and Lionelle Barrymore be as our scepters, Audible as Campbell soup and the world be as the the house of Cratchit. On the morrow we shall rise to spend what we cannot deplete, in the joy with which we shall bless every neighbor.

So clear and eloquent was their speech, the tones in the voices of yesterday's productions are inspiring and compelling. They call us to look back, to hear a class of men and women who have travelled through time in recording for one purpose..... Enjoy!

Those voices!

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I love a Christmas Carol almost any version but an old time radio version takes you there like no other. Radio was made for that at the time. Great actors and best story of all times

Fantastic

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This story will never loose its appeal. Christmas is not the same without it. This is a very good dramatization.

Great program

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...before television. Even the commercials were nostalgic...even if you didn't grow up in that period of time.

Great to hear how stories were told on the radio..

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This was great to listen to in the car on the long road trip to the relative's house on Christmas.

Fun dramatization

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