We've seen Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol adapted for movies, television, and the stage. Ye scribe actually acted in a Christian-themed school production in 1978. Never gave acting any serious thought afterward.
Digression over. Carol had also been adapted, unsurprisingly, for radio, dating back to the mid-30's. For example, CBS' Campbell Playhouse, which lasted just three years total after the soup giant landed a deal with Orson Welles, shortly after Welles' celebrated adaptation of War of The Worlds, presented Carol in each of the two seasons of its hour-long format. Welles starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 production, but a year later, moved over to serve as narrator, opening room for Lionel Barrymore, who first essayed the role of Scrooge on radio in 1934.
Here, then, is the Welles-Barrymore production from 1939. Also heard are Everett Sloane and Bea Benaderet, among others.
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