DescriptionA special Christmas program, including original songs sung by JoAnne Worley, and excerpts from a wide variety of classic literary works, including scenes from A Christmas Carol with Elliot Reid as Scrooge. The cast includes Ashby Adams, Parley Baer, John Bliss, Richard Erdman, Kathleen Freeman, Linda Henning, Marvin Kaplan, Sean McClory, Roddy McDowall, Jeanette Nolan, Peggy Webber, and William Windom. It was adapted, produced and directed by Peggy Webber.
DescriptionWith music, wonderful performances, and lots of holiday cheer, The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air's production of Dickens classics will become a holiday family favorite. This dramatization presents four classic holiday tales by the great Charles Dick…
DescriptionCharles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories, particularly "A Christmas Carol." In the latter genre, interestingly, these stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for they were serialized in magazines at the Christmas season. "The Cricket on the Hearth, " "The Battle of Life", and "The Haunted Man" were written for the Christmas market, and all lay emphasis on family love and the delights of home. But there is more to these stories than surface sentimentality: their eager anticipation by a whole nation tells us much about the age Dickens lived in. And these stories never would have survived without roots and power.
DescriptionThis collection contains six classic Christmas radio productions from the '30s, '40s, and '50s: "A Christmas Carol" from Campbell Playhouse, with Orson Welles as host and Lionel Barrymore as Ebeneezer Scrooge (December 24, 1939) "Christmas by Injunction", a dramatization of O. Henry's classic story, from Author's Playhouse (December 21, 1941) "Miracle on 34th Street" from Lux Radio Theatre, with the stars of the original motion picture: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, and Edmund Gwenn (December 25, 1949) "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Paul Gallico, from Radio City Playhouse (December 25, 1949) "Lullaby of Christmas" starring Roddy McDowall and Ruth Hussey, from Family Theater (December 19, 1951) "All is Bright" from CBS Radio Workshop (December 23, 1956)…
DescriptionYou'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, you'd better not pout, I'm telling you why: here, for the first time on audio, is the acclaimed, award-winning Christmas 'Clue' special I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol . Originally broadcast on Christmas Day 2003, the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Players present their unique interpretation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, starring Humphyre Lyttelton as Ebenezer Scrumph, Colin Sell as his downtrodden assistant Crotchet, and Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Barry Cryer as the Ghosts of Christmas Future, Present, and P*ssed. This Yuletide extravaganza is not to be missed. Plus, there's a generous stockingful of silly games and pointless revelry from the merry gentlemen of the Clue team, including some memorable moments from the much-missed Willie Rushton. Join them for a feast of festive fun with all the seasonal trimmings!
