I added another free version of A Christmas Carol to
Official Post. It's from Orson Welles' 1939 radio broadcast on the Campbell Playhouse. It's an hour in length.
As performed on the eve of December 24th, 1939, during the live broadcast of the CBS Campbell Playhouse radio program. Featuring Orson Welles as the Narrator, and Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge.
Quote:
(MUSIC ... SLEIGH-BELLS BRIEFLY ... THEN, CHOIR SINGS "THE FIRST NOEL" ... UNDER)
ORSON WELLES: Good evening. This is Orson Welles. There are clearly a number of ways in which "A Christmas Carol" could be introduced. Myself, I am most struck by the happy fortune that enables us on this Christmas Eve to present Mr. Lionel Barrymore, the best-loved actor of our time, in the world's best- loved Christmas story, "A Christmas Carol." There is, I think, in all America nothing more eagerly awaited, more firmly rooted in the hearts of the radio family that numbers millions than this yearly performance of "A Christmas Carol." "A Christmas Carol," as Charles Dickens wrote it, has, by common consent, long been a classic. Mr. Lionel Barrymore's appearance in it is rapidly becoming one.
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