A Christmas Carol: A Radio Play Based on Charles Dickens’ Classic Short Story Audiobook

This is a full-cast recording of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday favorite A Christmas Carol, the tale of miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge.

It is Christmas Eve, and the air outside is as cold as Scrooge’s heart. Come nightfall, Scrooge receives three visitors: the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Each spirit takes him on a hair-raising journey through time, yielding glimpses of Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit—and even Scrooge’s painfully hopeful younger self. Will Scrooge’s heart be opened? Can he escape his cursed fate?

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“This enjoyable audio adaptation of the preeminent Dickensclassic opens with festive holiday music and features crisp and hauntingstate-of-the-art sounds: creaking doors, chiming church bells, winter winds,and rattling chains. But what keeps the production grounded and refreshing isthat the script stays very close to the heightened language and keen dialogueof the original 1843 text. We all know the dialogue of Ebenezer Scrooge, BobCratchit, and Tiny Tim (their story is a part of our cultural DNA), and thecast does an admirable job bringing the sounds of Christmases Past, Present,and Future to life. Though it’s been adapted and performed in every imaginablesetting and time period, as this production artfully illustrates, AChristmas Carol can be most extraordinary when served traditionally.”

— AudioFile