"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
This is a radio drama produced on Christmas Eve, 1958, at WRVC-FM, a Norfolk radio station, where Gwen Whitehurst (Organist at South Norfolk Baptist) was often invited to play the piano, and where Jim and Joe Hughes worked while in college.
It is here offered for you at the Christmas season, a time when we remember and honor the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Charles Dickens’ story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge’s ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future Yet to Come.
This live studio production, which features the great grandson of Charles Dickens is set within a religious context, with the use of the hymn, “See, Amid the Winter’s Snow,” also known as “Hymn for Christmas Day,” written by Edward Caswall, with music composed by Sir John Goss. It is found in many hymnbooks, and sung at Christmastime. (Choir: Temple Church, London; Organist: Sir George Thalben-Ball).