The Campbell Playhouse

A Christmas Carol

Part 1 of 10

English

The Campbell Playhouse brings celebrated works of literature and drama to radio, with Orson Welles as its guiding presence. This recording begins a ten-part adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, following Ebenezer Scrooge’s encounter with the spirits who confront him with his past, present, and possible future.

The program presents the story as a dramatic radio performance, using actors, dialogue, music, and sound to carry Dickens’s tale from the page to the air. Its serialized format lets the familiar story unfold across installments, giving listeners time to follow Scrooge’s transformation and the people whose lives are touched by his choices.

Welles’s production is known for bringing literary and theatrical material to a broad radio audience. The result is a classic ghost story with a moral heart: atmospheric and suspenseful, yet ultimately warm, humane, and hopeful.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.