2025 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL !

2025 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL !

Author: Forgotten News Podcast December 14, 2025 Duration: 1:18:04

A Christmas Gift, From Your Hosts, Jim and Kit Caren!

Back by Popular Demand:

On this episode, we feature our Seventh presentation of the 1939 radio broadcast of "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens, featuring the voices of Orson Welles and Lionel Barrymore. Complete, and uncut.

ENJOY !!!

Merry Christmas!  

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HISTORICAL REFERENCES:

A Christmas Carol, The Campbell Playhouse, CBS Radio Network, December 24, 1939 (radio play, audio).⁠

O’Leary, Dorothy, Barrymore’s Scrooge, New York Times, December 21, 1947 (interview with Lionel Barrymore).

Chesteron, G.K., ⁠⁠The Wrong Books at Christmas⁠⁠, Illustrated London News, January 09, 1909 (column / commentary).

Dickens, Charles, ⁠⁠A Christmas Carol⁠⁠ (1843) (complete text of book). PLEASE NOTE: The radio play is a shortened and adapted version of the book.

We claim NO ownership interest in any of the above material - whether audio or print.

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GUEST VOICES:

Lionel Barrymore - Pete Lutz, voice artist and producer, ⁠⁠Mutual Audio Network, an audiodrama podcast.


G.K. Chesterton - ⁠⁠Logan Smith⁠⁠ - free-lance professional voice actor.

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MISCELLANEOUS:

Exit Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren, co-host ⁠⁠Forgotten News Podcast⁠⁠.

Host IntroNina Innsted, host of the ⁠⁠Already Gone⁠⁠ podcast.

Exit Aphorism - Source:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Author Unknown

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MUSIC:

Kevin MacLeod  of⁠⁠ Incompetech.com⁠⁠ – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0 At Rest

At Rest

I Knew A Guy

All Sound Effects & Short Instrumentals Are From ⁠⁠Freesound.org⁠ , Or the Public Domain.

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