The Tim Curry recording (Audible, 2009)
Tim Curry reads the story, every word, alone.
Dickens performed this story aloud himself, on tour. One good voice is all it needs.
You want the book itself by ear, read by one voice, on a dark evening.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Dickens’s text, read by one actor.
Changes: the page into a voice. Audible describes the performance as “deliciously dark.”
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, in Curry’s voice, along with everyone else’s.
How much time does it ask?
An Audible Studios recording, ℗ 2009 Audible, Inc.
Audible Studios, “A Signature Performance by Tim Curry,” ℗ 2009 Audible, Inc.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Listen — Audible · Audio CD — Amazon
Borrow it free: Find at your library — WorldCat
More Christmas Carols: Patrick Stewart’s reading (Simon & Schuster Audio) · The Audible full-cast drama, with Derek Jacobi as Dickens · Focus on the Family Radio Theatre’s A Christmas Carol