It’s hilarious how Welles bangs on about America when he’s talking about a quintessential English story 😂

🌲🎄🌲MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024

He sounds like Mr Potter.

Lionel Barrymore is Drew Barrymore's great uncle

A Christmas Eve tradition, start the fireplace, hot cocoa & cookies listening to A Christmas Carol

Lionel Barrymore had a great voice. He was great as Mr. Potter too in It's A Wonderful Life.

So happy someone uploaded this to KZbin, it’s been a Christmas Eve tradition of mine for many years between the radio and here. God bless us every one!!!!

Time for my annual listen! Merry Christmas! No matter what the year.

They cut out the part about Mrs. Buckley‘s peas, not cool.

Merry Christmas 2024! 🎄🎅🎁🎁

Hi, my name is Becki and I’m listening to this on Saturday, December 21st 2024. From Roseburg, Oregon.

I took a tour of the Campbell's museum of soip turbines in NJ. I wonder if it's still there. They were stunning.

I can’t come to terms with an American accent in a thoroughly British story by a very British journalist and writer, in a very English setting. To add insult to injury adverts for soups! Ugh.

Something magical about this . Transports you back in time...And , knowing this fine character actor from It's a Wonderful life puts a picture in your head...

Always have watched Lionel Barrymore movies but it's just as special hearing his wonderful voice 💙🌟

Lionel Barrymore makes the perfect Scrooge!

The voice of Scrooge is the same man who played the evil Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life". Definitely appropriate and probably intentional😎...

Just what I needed, watching the snow come down during a trying Xmas season this year. God bless everyone.

Really enjoyed this version, awesome upload. Thank you. 😊

Time Machine back to the best generation for Christmas. Thank you.

In December 2024, enjoying this wonderful old radio rendition of A Christmas Carol. May God bless you.

Merry Christmas everyone this is the start of a new tradition in my family my son who is Autistic loves the Christmas carol he loves it when Scrooge said Bah Humbug

It's almost that time again ❄️🎄🎅🎁🎅☃️🧸🦃⛄️🎄🙏✨️

I could imagine myself in my house in our town Arcadia, with my Husband Adam, our four children, our 5-year-old daughter named Ellie, our 6-year-old son named Tyler, our 8-year-old Identical Twins named Keith (Boy, our son) and Laura (Girl, our daughter), we would be sitting in the living room, the Christmas lights would be hanging outside on the front of our house, our Decorated Christmas Tree would be standing in front of our window, with the Christmas Lights on, the Christmas Presents would be underneath the Christmas Tree, a small plate with a chocolate chip cookie would be lying on the table, beside it would be a glass of milk, beside it would be a note for Santa that the kids have written, they each signed their names on it too, we would be dressed in our warm sleeping attire, Adam and I would be sitting on the couch, Ellie, Tyler, Keith, and Laura would be sitting on the living room floor, then the kids would fall asleep one by one, Adam and I would carefully picked them up, and carried them to their beds in their bedrooms, we would cover them up, and walked out of the bedrooms, we would walk down the stairs, and we would unplug the Christmas Tree, and eat the Chocolate chip cookie, drink the glass of milk, turn the radio off, and would go to bed too.

Beautiful furniture ❤

Thank you I will discuss it with my dad

Where can I buy the movie 😮

Merry Christmas 2023! 🎄🎄🎁🎁

Merry Christmas 🎄 God Bless us Everyone

Listening to this in 2023 while making pumpkin pie, this makes me think of my mom who had me listen to this with her every year. Wish we could continue the tradition. Merry Christmas everyone in 2023 🎄

I can imagine my grandparents and my mother and her siblings listening to this on a Christmas Eve. Thank you and a most Merry Christmas!

I'm going to listen to this with some food and drink and means of warmth whilst wrapping presents.

My dad had this on a record and we listened to it every year . 🥰

I think Welles is doing multiple voices in this - Narrator, Spirit of Xmas Past, we’ll see about more as I listen on. Yay!

He plays Scrooge - then that other Scrooge, Mr. Potter! Orson Welles’ voice is sublime.

I am convinced they know what happened to the missing.

Marley and Scrooge were not Jack the Ripper.I myself don’t like Christmas,I love Easter.Christmas to me is the bully holiday,oh my God if you dislike this holiday look at what we can do to you!I know it is fiction but I wish the Ghostbusters were real I’d hire them to zap those damn Christmas ghosts,not Marley

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When you realise this was broadcast the first Christmas of WW2

How I love this story!!! 🤗 If only Charles Dickens knew what a beautiful, spiritual impact this would have on mankind! 🙏🏼 Everyone needs to experience this story of salvation!!! The world could be a better place! Amen!

I love this!!! If only this were a movie, I would very much enjoy seeing it. Mr. Barrymore is a wonderful Scrooge. I can almost see this in my imagination. And Orson Welles! Superb, just superb 🤗🤗🤗

I'm listening to this on a Saturday night in December of 2023 as I am drawing a picture for a very sick friend, thanks for the inspiration....

Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge is perfect casting!

Omg i hope this is what I've been looking for for years. I heard a radio program when i was a child, like 1984, and haven't found it. It was Christmas eve, and it enthralled me. About to listen. I'll update. Update: THIS IS IT!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!❤❤❤❤

Barrymore was to play scrooge on film but broke his leg. I think it was a auto accident. I'm pretty sure that he being in a wheelchair in" It's A Wonderful life". And Key Largo.✨

I love Lionel Barrymore. ✨💚💜💙✨

good story

Does anyone know where to get this movie?

Lionel Barrymore went on to play the Scrooge-like Henry F. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. About three decades later, Orson Welles played the same role in Marlo Thomas' TV-movie remake, It Happened One Christmas--which was my introduction to the Bailey-Potter story as a 1970s college student.

Thank you for posting. Such a wonderful recording, especially to hear on New Year's Eve 🎄😊