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A Christmas Carol - Radio Presentation
A Christmas Carol: Campbell Playhouse - (1939) 59 min
Charles Dicken's classic tale of an old miser whose is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve is dramatized in this 1939 radio drama. Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed by Lionel Barrymore - Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful life and the play is narrated by non other than Orson Welles.
Sit back and listen to this old radio program as it was broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1939 complete with commercials.
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