Murder & Magnolias - Keith Morrison reads “A Christmas Carol”
Episode Date: December 7, 2023Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for season 2 of our podcast Morrison Mysteries…Each season, Keith Morrison takes listeners on a captivating ride through some of th...e most suspenseful and chilling works of fiction you’ll ever hear. Haunting stories of ghosts, love triangles, jealousy and rage – and now in the spirit of the holidays, he’s taking us to Victorian England for Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol.You can hear Keith’s rendition of the story on Monday, December 11, completely free. Just search “Morrison Mysteries” to follow now or click here: https://link.chtbl.com/mms2_fdtw
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Picture the face, spiteful old eyes, squinting disapproval, thin blue lips and permanent
scowl, dry hollow cheeks, around a cold dripping, disappointed beak of a nose.
He sits on his miserable stool, barking his orders, counting his money.
He glairs at the joy bursting all around him.
Joy because it's Christmas Eve.
And he grows even meaner and harder and colder still.
What happened to make him this way?
Hadn't he been happy once?
Oh yes, and in love,
engaged to a beauty named Bell,
employed by the best boss in the world, who threw parties
for his staff as they danced the night away.
So where did it all go so wrong?
There's an answer, of course, but you have to go back, way back, more than 200 years
back, and across an ocean and through the foggy streets of Victorian
England to a time infected by greed and weighed down by stark poverty.
Maybe not so different from our own time.
And here you will meet the original, the OG of Mean, the origin story of Ebenezer's Scrooge.
You may think you know his tale of woe all the humbug of it, but most of it just had a taste.
Now you'll live in the very words themselves.
Join me for Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol.
You can hear the whole story starting Monday, December 11th.
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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