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The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales Audiobook, by Charles Dickens Play Audiobook Sample

The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales Audiobook

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Read By: Greg Wagland, Tim Bruce, Helen Lloyd, various narrators, Nigel Patterson, Liam Gerrard, Malk Williams, James Gillies Publisher: Spoken Realms Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781665021500

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

21

Longest Chapter Length:

83:01 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

31 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

35:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

205

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Publisher Description

Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas CarolA Ghost Story of Christmas in Five Staves when he was 31; the first edition was published on 19th December 1843 and had sold out just four days later and by the end of 1844, there were already 13 reprints. Now with numerous adaptations for film, television, radio, stage, and indeed, audiobooks, A Christmas Carol has, for many, become an essential part of Christmas!

Raconteurs Audio has created this audio anthology to include Dickens’ two Christmas novellas, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth, as well as a collection of his lesser known short stories with a Christmas theme.

A Christmas Carol

Stave 1 - Marley’s Ghost read by Liam Gerrard

Stave 2 - The First of Three Spirits read by Tim Bruce

Stave 3 - The Second of Three Spirits read by James Gillies

Stave 4 - The Last of the Spirits read by Greg Wagland

Stave 5 - The End of It read by Malk Williams

Music

Stave 1 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - English Traditional

Stave 2 - The Three Kings - Peter Cornelius

Stave 3 - Gabriel’s Message - Basque Noel

Stave 4 - A Coventry Carol - English Traditional

Stave 5 - This Is the Truth - English Traditional

Finale - In Dulci Jubilo - German Traditional

Original music arranged and produced by Kelvin Towse for this audiobook production.

Festive Tales

The Haunted House read by Greg Wagland

A Christmas Tree read by Nigel Patterson

The Chimes read by James Gillies

The Christmas Goblin read by Liam Gerrard

The Cricket on the Hearth read by Helen Lloyd

Nobody’s Story read by Malk Williams

A Child’s Dream of a Star read by Tim Bruce

What Christmas Is as We Grow Older read by James Gillies

These stories originally published between 1843 and 1871 are in the public domain. The traditional music is also in the public domain.

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About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors’ prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters.

About the Narrators

Greg Wagland is an actor, audiobook narrator, and voice artist. His audiobook credits include classics, fiction, history, poetry, biography, nonfiction, science fiction, as well as young adult and children’s fiction.

Tim Bruce has a warm, friendly, characterful voice and works extensively in voice-over, cartoons, and audiobooks. A regular on the BBC, Tim was the voice of Channel 996 for over three years. A long list of audiobook recordings includes the award-winning Blade series, Mark Billingham’s DI Tom Thorne series, Doctor Who, the Oxford Book of War Poetry, and the poetry of William Blake. Tim has also created a whole host of cartoon character voices for CBBC, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Cartoon Network.

Helen Lloyd is a British actor and voice artist who recorded her first voice-over at the age of fourteen. Since then, she has spent much of her life interpreting other people’s words and bringing characters to life. A classically trained actor, she has performed with many of Britain’s leading repertory theaters, as well as at the Edinburgh Festival, the Roundhouse, and on the West End.

Nigel Patterson, British audiobook narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has many credits as a stage, screen, and voiceover actor that influence his powerful characterization across a broad range of genres. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he is fluent in French and Spanish.

Liam Gerrard is an award-winning voice artist with over ten years of experience working in every field of the voice industry, as well as a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor. A 2017 Audie Award nominee, he has narrated over thirty audiobooks in a wide range of genres and styles.

Malk Williams is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.

James A. Gillies has been a familiar voice across BBC television and radio for nearly a quarter of a century. Trained at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, he has worked as an actor, continuity announcer, program narrator, and newsreader. He lives with his wife and two Norwegian Forest cats in Kilbarchan, Scotland.