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A Christmas Carol (Great Stories)

1:00 am 5 January 2013
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Rather than reading A Christmas Carol, I saw Simon Callow's one man show in which he gave a staged reading of a substantial abridgement.

Callow's convincing characterisation of Scrooge brought life to the story and I had a most enjoyable evening. I knew the basic story already from films and childhood versions but there is much that is gripping about the original. For me, Dickens is best when I listen to a really good narrator, rather than reading it for myself.
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