Yeah I wish they fixed that in the title. Still really great to hear anyway. It's amazing how young Welles was here yet he was able to almost perfectly portray an old man like Scrooge with his vocal performance.
They made a mistake (or "blooper," as they say in show business) in this program. Here, the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come actually speaks to Ebenezer Scrooge, but in the novel (as well as in all the movie, radio, stage, television, and animated adaptions of "A Christmas Carol"), the spirit of the future is the only one of the four ghosts who doesn't speak at all. Also, I think they may have cut something out, because in the churchyard scene, Scrooge, after seeing the gravestone bearing his name, asks the Ghost of the future "Was I the man who was lying dead on the bed?" Yet, throughout the entire segment dealing with Scrooge's future leading up to the churchyard/gravestone part, there's no mention of a dead man lying on a bed.
Man I have been listening for 3 minutes and I already know that I love this
Sounds like this is the 1938 broadcast with Orson Welles playing Scrooge.
Yeah I wish they fixed that in the title. Still really great to hear anyway. It's amazing how young Welles was here yet he was able to almost perfectly portray an old man like Scrooge with his vocal performance.
They made a mistake (or "blooper," as they say in show business) in this program. Here, the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come actually speaks to Ebenezer Scrooge, but in the novel (as well as in all the movie, radio, stage, television, and animated adaptions of "A Christmas Carol"), the spirit of the future is the only one of the four ghosts who doesn't speak at all.
Also, I think they may have cut something out, because in the churchyard scene, Scrooge, after seeing the gravestone bearing his name, asks the Ghost of the future "Was I the man who was lying dead on the bed?" Yet, throughout the entire segment dealing with Scrooge's future leading up to the churchyard/gravestone part, there's no mention of a dead man lying on a bed.
That doesn’t sound like Lionel Barrymore
It's not. It's Orson Welles trying to sound like Lionel Barrymore, who was ill at the time.