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I walked into my first day of work on A Christmas Carol wondering if I had to stay in the closet.
I had no idea how many queer revelations were in store for me.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/tonight-you-will-be-visited-by-the-ghosts-of-queerness-past-1e41e4c40389?sk=722d2890cd29d57ba496ace6d725fbf1 -
Every year I have to remind myself that there was only one Marley in the original #AChristmasCarol -
A little Xmas tradition we have is this retelling of A Christmas Carol with Ross Kemp
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To frame #Grinch vs #Scrooge as a mere new-for-old replacement misses half the point of #AChristmasCarol: it’s not just a redemption story, but—like much of #Dickens’ work—also a critique of the class system.
#Christmas #Xmas https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115785082004346873
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Finally time for The #MuppetChristmasCarol! 🎄🎄🎄
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Until I picked it up yesterday, it had been ages since I last read A Christmas Carol.
Dickens' original story holds up well. The emphasis on kindness and charity and human connection makes it timeless, beyond the specifics of poverty in England during the early Industrial Revolution or 19th-century Christmas traditions.
Critically, it makes Scrooge's conversion work as a matter of character, not just because the theme demanded it. You see just enough glimmers of humanity in his past that it's believable there might be some left in there. Somewhere. Even if it takes ghost-induced trauma to shake it loose again.
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Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” might not even be the *best* Christmas ghost story!
Check out this vintage CBC recording of broadcaster Alan Maitland reading Frederick Forsyth’s “The Shepherd”. It's a brilliant interpetation of an awesome short story. You're welcome 😀
Also, Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
And to those who don’t, it's still a cool recording 😀
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Made this for #Trump in 2017. Even more relevant today!
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Aside from Gonzo and Rizzo, my favorite thing about A Muppet Christmas Carol is how Michael Caine plays Scrooge straight as an arrow. He's like "Puppets? What puppets?"
#muppets #muppetchristmascarol #achristmascarol #charlesdickens #michaelcaine
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In Which Marley Carries the Day "Business? Mankind was my business!" rustyring.blogspot.com/2019/12/in-w... #business, #capitalism, #AChristmasCarol, #ChaårlesDickens, #Christmas, #clearseeing, #England, #hermitpractice, #redemption, #scarcitymodel, #Zen
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In Which Marley Carries the Day
"Business? Mankind was my business!"
http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2019/12/in-which-marley-carries-day.html
#business, #capitalism, #AChristmasCarol, #CharlesDickens, #Christmas, #clearseeing, #England, #hermitpractice, #redemption, #scarcitymodel, #Zen
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“I’m slightly surprised that the folks in charge of banning books haven’t focused on this one yet, given how contradictory it is to their aims and careless heartlessness.”
The Catechism of a Christmas Carol Revisited
#Politics #AChristmasCarol #Christmas
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/12/18/the-catechism-of-a-christmas-carol-revisited/ -
Climate Change took our Dickensian Xmas London snow away.....
https://www.mylondon.news/weather/bbc-weather-predicts-dreary-christmas-33046016
#Xmas #CharlesDickens #AChristmasCarol #ClimateChange #London #UKWeather
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@Ruth_Mottram Yes, this BBC version is very nice. However, my favourite #audiodrama version of #AChristmasCarol is the *very* strange ‘A Christmas Carol: Redux’, originally aired on CBC Radio in 2009.
It’s no longer available on the CBC Radio website, but you can listen to it here (with imperfect audio quality): https://shunpikingwithray.com/2024/12/23/the-night-beforethe-night-before-christmas-2024/
Best enjoyed with some dairy-free eggnog – recipe included. 😉
#audiofiction #radiodrama #radioplay #CharlesDickens #christmas
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At this time of year, I always listen to #AChristmasCarol while wrapping presents.
This BBC radio 3 + 4 coproduction from 2014 remains my favourite ever, delighted to find it on the @internetarchive -
#BostonWeekend 3/x Through 12/21 SHERLOCK x CHRISTMAS CAROL - You've got your Arthur Conan Doyle in my Charles Dickens - at the Lyric Stage in #Boston. "Moriarity is as dead as a doornail. Sherlock Holmes is depressed. Without his number one adversary, what’s the point of it all? Enter a grown-up Tiny Tim and the mysterious death of everyone’s favorite humbug and it’s a festive literary mash-up with surprises around every corner. This fresh and charming reimagining of two of the most beloved literary characters is a "Dickens" of a yuletide detective story that’s as “good as gold.” Six actors transform before your eyes in a playful, clever, and joyous holiday comedy that is “elementary” for a festive outing sure to delight audiences of all ages.
" $65+ https://www.lyricstage.com/show-item/a-sherlock-carol/
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TV legend David Suchet reveals when he’ll finally watch Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot
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A 🎄 Christmas Carol based on the current situation in the Middle East 🌍, featuring Larry Ellison 💼 or similar people, would be an interesting idea 🤔, IMHO. It could serve as a cautionary tale ⚠️ that the humanity ❤️, ethics ⚖️, and morals of Western countries are highly questionable 😠 while they allow a genocide ☠️ to happen right in front of everyone's eyes 👀—which is still ongoing due to inaction 😴
#AChristmasCarol #MiddleEast #LarryEllison #CautionaryTale #WesternEthics #Genocide #Inaction #IMHO
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Books that Influenced my Life
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Books that Influenced my Life
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, then you can find the list of topics for 2025 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.
Books that Influenced my Life
Two main books influenced my life—one in a positive way and one in a negative way.
Let’s start with the negative to get it out of the way.
The Bible.
I’ve mentioned before that I grew up in a Catholic family, and my nanna was staunchly devout. We were made to go to church every Sunday—and for Ash Wednesday, Easter Sunday and Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve—and we had to behave in a typically “Catholic way”, i.e., being kind, being polite, presenting ourselves in a socially acceptable way and not letting anyone know what goes on behind closed doors and to present a facade of peace and happiness. Now, that sounds okay, right? Not too bad? But for a little gay boy growing up in the 1980s and 90s, it was hell.I knew that I was “different” from a very early age—and I also knew, from the biblical teachings at Sunday school and from what I learned from my family via osmosis, that the sort of different I was would prevent me from getting into “heaven”.
That book made me hate myself so much that I didn’t believe I was worth my space on Earth. I thought my family would be so ashamed if they knew. I was ashamed of myself. All I saw on TV (of the meagre representation there was back then) was horror stories of people being disowned by their families or beaten up by people in the streets. Poor Matthew Shepard’s murder was all over the news in 1998. I was terrified to act naturally in public, so I’d put on a mask and pretend to be something I wasn’t.
In the end, I discovered that this particular book held no power over me. My nanna remained staunchly devout until the day she died, but when she learned I was marrying a man, she couldn’t have been happier, telling me, “It’s about time!”
Overall, the Bible—a book meant to symbolise love, peace and forgiveness made me afraid of my own family when I had no need to be. My family did—and do—accept me and have never been anything less than loving and supportive.
I’m all for people’s right to religious freedom. In fact, I envy the blind faith that those people like my nanna seem to have and those whose experiences with Catholicism and the Bible on the whole have been lovely—but I’m too logically minded to believe an all-knowing entity created the entire universe, and I don’t enjoy knowing that the text of the Bible has been interpreted and retranslated over and over. Who can even be certain of it’s original message anymore?
Now for the positive.
A Christmas Carol
This book was read to me many times when I was growing up, and then, when I could manage it, I’d read it myself. I believe Mr Dickens is the reason I have such a love for the Christmas period. Although the story is one of change and redemption, it was the spirits that captured my imagination. I also think it’s why I love the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas.If nothing else, A Christmas Carol certainly began to stir my imagination, and it may even be part of the reason I enjoy telling my own stories.
Now, whenever I read the book or watch an adaptation (The Muppet’s Christmas Carol is my favourite), I am whisked back to my early childhood when I’d be tucked into bed before my dad would begin to read all about Ebeneezer Scrooge and his miserly ways. Even now, the story brings me a sense of calm, tinged with a feeling of homesickness for a home I can never return to, which, I suppose, is what nostalgia is.
Well, that’s me done for now. I wonder what books, if indeed any, have influenced your lives.
As ever, thank you all for taking the time to read my words. I really do appreciate you all!
Until next time,
George
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New release review: Christmas Karma
#DannyDyer #AChristmasCarol #BazLuhrmann #RomeoAndJuliet #Cinemastodon
