A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens, R. D. Carstairs - adaptation

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Cranham, Miriam Margolyes, Jenna Coleman, Brendan Coyle, Roger Allam

Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's Summary

'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'

Charles Dickens' ghostly tale of sour and stingy miser Ebenezer Scrooge has captivated readers, listeners and audiences for over 150 years. This Christmas, Audible Studios brings this story to life in an audio drama featuring an all-star cast.

Starring: Sir Derek Jacobi as Dickens, Kenneth Cranham as Ebenezer Scrooge, Roger Allam as Jacob Marley, Brendan Coyle as The Ghost Of Christmas Past, Miriam Margolyes as The Ghost Of Christmas Present, Tim Mcinnerny as The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come, Jamie Glover as Bob Cratchit, Emily Bruni as Mrs. Cratchit, Jenna Coleman as Belle, Joshua James as Young Scrooge And Hugh Skinner as Fred

©2016 Audible, Ltd. (P)2016 Audible, Ltd.

Classic

Classic story, one that hopefully every generation can at least enjoy once in its original form. Timless & still enjoyable

A Christmas classic

Excellent quality production. The well known story was brought to life by these talented narrators. Lovely to listen too.

A Ghostly Christmas Classic

I mean, how do you review A Christmas Carol? The book is a hugely influential classic. I guess I can only say this: I enjoyed this novel, along with the story's themes about compassion, forgiveness, and greed. What made this edition even better, though, is that this was full-cast production, which truly brought the text to life - it felt like being at a play (minus the visual aspect).

I highly recommend this audiobook for a dramatized version of a ghostly Christmas tale.

THANK YOU 🎄🤶🏻🎄& Merry Christmas

This was an Audible.uk free Christmas Gift for 2016. A full cast drama with a perfect cast acting out a splendid production of Charles Dickens Classic ghost story. This production is so atmospheric and stays true to the storyline with Dickens wierd and wonderful characters we all love. Thank you Audible.

A mixed bag

I've read, listened to and watched A Christmas Carol a hundred times and in over a dozen different variations, and know its story very well, as I would hope we all do. While I appreciate - to some degree - the need for modernisation so that younger readers, listeners and viewers, might understand the more "old fashioned" phrases Mr Dickens enjoyed employing, I always feel a little sad when classic lines are changed for the sake of a recording or adaptation. Still; I will not begrudge the need for change, provided of course we acknowledge the original work. In regards to this adaptation; I could find little to complain about, albeit my own innate need to read the lines and quote the book along with the performance sometimes had me babbling nonsense as I tried to recite and listen simultaneously. However, I believe that giving a voice to the Ghost of Christmas Future was a mistake. Meaning no ill will towards the performer that provided the voice, but that particular spirit is meant to remain silent and unknowable, an entity we cannot fully understand or comprehend, and giving it a voice humanises it in a way that is not altogether pleasant, and begs the question of why it does not answer Scrooge's questions when he gives voice to his concerns, for if it can speak; it must surely understand speech, and thus understand Scrooge's plight, and is able to give an answer. A silent spirit needs no such explanation and presents a more ethereal visage, so I am I think understandably disappointed with that particular choice. Other than that point though, it is a reasonably good adaptation.

Great Christmas treat

This was a great retelling of a classic.
The cast did a great job of bringing the story to life.
Thank audible for the free gift. :)

A Christmas treat

What an excellent retelling of this story. Performances were as you would expect from such performers .Although the tale is well known it was a joy to listen to and I would thoroughly recommend it to almost anyone.

Delightful

Wonderfully performed and really enjoyed revisiting a Christmas Carol with a hot toddy and my feet up, Merry Christmas 😊

beautiful

Read , heard , seen the story before and still I am moved once more , it made me smile , it brought a tear in the corner of my eye ...thanks

Merry Christmas

This is a very enjoyable version of a true classic, made all the better by the various voice actors who bring the tale to life and make you want to continue to listen. 5/5

great adaptation

very engaging will probably listen every Christmas 🎄. enjoyed the spirits. Not a bah humbug in sight.

Finally I Do Feel The Spirit of Christmas!!!

This year more than most I've found it harder to cut through all the commercialisation of the season and feel the real Christmas spirit. Thankyou Audible for this. A quality cast, high production values done in old-style BBC-like fashion. The acting is excellent, the sound effects perfect and a wonderful traditional tale unfolds . . .

A genuine gift, don't miss out on it!

A Christmas Present

Everything about it was good; in fact it was very good. Thank you Audio for a wonderful Christmas present.