1 00:00:11,190 --> 00:00:15,750 Hello and welcome to meet as pod I'm your host de minas. As far 2 00:00:15,750 --> 00:00:18,210 back as I can remember, I have loved A Christmas Carol by 3 00:00:18,210 --> 00:00:22,410 Charles Dickens and its many many forms Scrooged starring 4 00:00:22,410 --> 00:00:25,650 Bill Murray and Muppet Christmas Carol, the stage play the radio 5 00:00:25,650 --> 00:00:29,730 drama all of it. Well, on this episode, we have a full cast 6 00:00:29,730 --> 00:00:32,640 production of Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, 7 00:00:33,270 --> 00:00:37,920 starring Kyle a bear as Ebenezer Scrooge. Stay tuned after the 8 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:43,710 story for a full cast list. Without further ado, A Christmas 9 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:45,870 Carol by Charles Dickens. 10 00:00:52,710 --> 00:00:57,300 Molly was dead to begin with. There's no doubt whatever about 11 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:01,740 that. The Register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the 12 00:01:01,740 --> 00:01:06,360 cleric, The Undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it 13 00:01:07,260 --> 00:01:10,350 and screwed his name was good upon change for anything he 14 00:01:10,350 --> 00:01:15,570 chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was dead as a doornail. 15 00:01:16,050 --> 00:01:20,190 Scrooge knew he was dead. Of course he did. Scrooge and 16 00:01:20,190 --> 00:01:25,590 Marley were partners for I don't know how many years but he was a 17 00:01:25,590 --> 00:01:28,710 tight fisted hand of the old Grindstone was Scrooge 18 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:34,320 squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous 19 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:39,060 old sinner, and once upon a time, of all the good days in 20 00:01:39,060 --> 00:01:43,980 the year, on Christmas Eve, old Scrooge that busy in his 21 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:48,180 counting house, at grim, cheerless place, if there ever 22 00:01:48,180 --> 00:01:52,410 was one. The door of Scrooges counting house was open that he 23 00:01:52,410 --> 00:01:58,170 might keep an eye on his clerk Bob Cratchit who and a cold and 24 00:01:58,170 --> 00:02:02,010 dismal sell beyond worked on his Ledger's. 25 00:02:04,260 --> 00:02:15,030 2021 22 Rushing Merry Gentlemen lead nothing new this May 2326 26 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:23,820 to nine nine carry to on Christmas Day. 11 1317 Seven 27 00:02:24,239 --> 00:02:29,909 project Yes, Mr. Scrooge. Stop that in fertile caterwauling. 28 00:02:30,630 --> 00:02:37,620 Yes sir. No. 1517 21 Carry the one 29 00:02:42,210 --> 00:02:46,110 all the impudence singing their idiotic Christmas carols at my 30 00:02:46,110 --> 00:02:53,520 very door go on Get away from my door go somewhere else and 31 00:02:53,550 --> 00:02:57,300 bellow your blasted Carol's I'll give you in charge. 32 00:02:57,540 --> 00:03:00,570 Sorry, Governor. Easter no customer at Christmas time you 33 00:03:00,570 --> 00:03:01,770 know? Yes. 34 00:03:01,830 --> 00:03:05,190 And I don't want any of your old customs. Take your fellow fools 35 00:03:05,190 --> 00:03:10,380 and go away. Christmas. Yeah. Oh, right. say Merry Christmas 36 00:03:10,380 --> 00:03:16,800 anyway. So now you get that letter from Higgins and 37 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,860 blackthorn Cratchit and then I want you to finish posting this 38 00:03:19,860 --> 00:03:23,220 ledger. And after that you can pop over to foster girls and 39 00:03:23,220 --> 00:03:27,000 tell Heath Rumford. You You've come after the 17 shillings and 40 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,990 six pence he's owed me since micromass and tell him I shall 41 00:03:30,990 --> 00:03:33,660 have a constable over there. If he doesn't pay up at once. 42 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:35,940 Mr. Foster Gil's wife has been ill sir. 43 00:03:37,050 --> 00:03:40,650 What do I care about his wife? I want my 17 and six. 44 00:03:42,570 --> 00:03:44,220 I just thought it being Christmas. 45 00:03:44,730 --> 00:03:48,720 Christmas Christmas. You mentioned that word to me once 46 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,930 more Bob Cratchit. And Merry Christmas uncle. Merry 47 00:03:51,930 --> 00:03:52,800 Christmas, Bob. 48 00:03:52,890 --> 00:03:54,540 Merry Christmas, Mr. Fred. 49 00:03:54,660 --> 00:04:01,140 God save you Uncle umberg Christmas a humbug uncle. Now 50 00:04:01,140 --> 00:04:02,670 I'm sure you don't mean that. 51 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,350 I mean, just that exactly that Merry Christmas. What right have 52 00:04:07,350 --> 00:04:11,400 you to be merry? What reason have you You're poor enough? 53 00:04:12,030 --> 00:04:14,520 But what right have you to be dismal about Christmas uncle? 54 00:04:15,060 --> 00:04:19,110 You're rich enough? Yeah. Now don't be cross uncle. 55 00:04:20,370 --> 00:04:24,180 Well, what else can I be when I live in such a world of fools? 56 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,600 What's Christmas to you? What a time for paying bills with our 57 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,590 money. Merry Christmas a time for finding herself a year older 58 00:04:31,650 --> 00:04:36,000 and not an hour richer. If I could work my will. Every idiot 59 00:04:36,030 --> 00:04:39,270 who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips would be 60 00:04:39,270 --> 00:04:42,330 boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stick of holly 61 00:04:42,330 --> 00:04:46,800 through his heart. He shouldn't call now nephew. Keep Christmas 62 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,890 in your own way. And let me keep it in mind. 63 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,830 Keep it but you don't keep it uncle. 64 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,520 Well, let me leave it alone. Then. What do you want a 65 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:57,780 Christmas gift? No doubt. 66 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,360 I came to wish you a Merry Christmas. Uncle, 67 00:05:00,570 --> 00:05:05,910 Merry Christmas much good make Christmas Do you, much good and 68 00:05:05,910 --> 00:05:06,960 ever has done you. 69 00:05:07,499 --> 00:05:10,889 There are many things from which I derived Good buy which I have 70 00:05:10,889 --> 00:05:15,599 not profited materially I test say uncle Christmas among the 71 00:05:15,599 --> 00:05:22,559 rest. But I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time 72 00:05:23,729 --> 00:05:31,409 a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. And therefore, 73 00:05:31,409 --> 00:05:34,889 uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my 74 00:05:34,889 --> 00:05:41,399 pocket. I believe it has done me good and will do me good. And I 75 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:42,899 say God bless it. 76 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:45,120 God bless Christmas hora. 77 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,630 Let me hear another sound out if you project that you'll keep 78 00:05:48,630 --> 00:05:52,680 your Christmas by losing your situation. Yes. And as to you 79 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,070 nephew. I wonder you don't go into parliament. You talk enough 80 00:05:56,070 --> 00:05:57,030 nonsense. Oh, 81 00:05:57,030 --> 00:06:00,630 don't be angry uncle. I want nothing from you. I asked 82 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:06,540 nothing of you. Why can't we be friends? Good afternoon. I'm 83 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:11,790 sorry. You feel that way? Well, I've tried a Merry Christmas to 84 00:06:11,790 --> 00:06:17,460 you, uncle. Good afternoon. And a happy new year to bah humbug. 85 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,750 And a Merry Christmas to you, Bob. And the Mrs. And to Tony, 86 00:06:21,750 --> 00:06:22,290 Tim. 87 00:06:22,350 --> 00:06:27,240 Thank you, Mr. Crate. Same to you, sir. Good day, sir. Good 88 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:27,780 day, Bob. 89 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:32,190 Nonsense. Quite all farmerie Talking of Christmas and not to 90 00:06:32,190 --> 00:06:36,990 six pence to jangle together in his trousers pocket. Hey, you, 91 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:39,900 Bob Cratchit. Come here. What are you doing there? 92 00:06:40,140 --> 00:06:44,400 I'm only putting a bit more coal in the fire. Mr. Scrooge. See, 93 00:06:44,430 --> 00:06:46,020 it's so cold in this. 94 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:49,650 You will put that call back into the scuttle a fire a fire 95 00:06:49,650 --> 00:06:53,610 indeed. I can tell you if you use coal at that rate. You and I 96 00:06:53,610 --> 00:06:56,520 will soon be parted company. Bob Cratchit. You understand that? 97 00:06:56,850 --> 00:06:59,400 There's many a young fellow that would like your situation, you 98 00:06:59,400 --> 00:06:59,790 know. 99 00:07:00,390 --> 00:07:04,200 I'm sorry, sir. My fingers. Were getting a little stiff with the 100 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:04,710 cold. 101 00:07:05,220 --> 00:07:10,140 Well then put on your mittens. Someone at the door. Go on. See 102 00:07:10,140 --> 00:07:10,740 what is. 103 00:07:11,489 --> 00:07:12,239 Yes, sir. 104 00:07:17,850 --> 00:07:21,510 Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. This is the firm of 105 00:07:21,510 --> 00:07:25,650 Scrooge and Molly. Yes, sir. I should like to see the head of 106 00:07:25,650 --> 00:07:27,450 the firm if I may. Oh, 107 00:07:27,570 --> 00:07:31,290 very good, sir. What is it? A gentleman to see you, Mr. 108 00:07:31,290 --> 00:07:31,920 Scrooge? 109 00:07:33,750 --> 00:07:36,720 Have I had the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. 110 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:37,290 Molly? 111 00:07:37,470 --> 00:07:41,700 Ma has been dead the seven years tonight. I'm Scrooge. Well, now 112 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:44,940 Mr. Scrooge at this season of the year. It's only fitting that 113 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:48,750 we who are more fortunate should raise the funds to buy the poor 114 00:07:48,750 --> 00:07:53,400 some meat and drink and means of warmth. You may not believe it's 115 00:07:53,670 --> 00:07:59,550 many 1000s are now in want of common necessities. And hundreds 116 00:07:59,550 --> 00:08:02,220 of 1000s are unwanted simplest comfort. 117 00:08:02,910 --> 00:08:05,220 Are there no prisons? Well, there 118 00:08:05,220 --> 00:08:06,900 are plenty of prisons, sir. 119 00:08:07,020 --> 00:08:09,450 And workhouses. They're still in operation I trust. 120 00:08:09,540 --> 00:08:12,750 I wish I could say they are not. But they are sir. 121 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,530 The treadmill and the poor law are in full vigor that are both 122 00:08:16,530 --> 00:08:19,110 very busy, sir. Ah, 123 00:08:19,470 --> 00:08:22,770 I'm glad to hear it. I was afraid from what you said at 124 00:08:22,770 --> 00:08:24,690 first that something had occurred to stop them in their 125 00:08:24,690 --> 00:08:25,860 useful course. 126 00:08:25,950 --> 00:08:29,790 No. So all these institutions you mentioned are flourishing. 127 00:08:30,270 --> 00:08:33,780 But it's nevertheless true that some additional provisioning for 128 00:08:33,780 --> 00:08:39,600 the poor and destitute must be made of few of us upon change 129 00:08:39,660 --> 00:08:43,560 are endeavouring to raise such a fund you see, and what should I 130 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:48,270 put you down for? Nothing. Oh, I see. You wish to remain 131 00:08:48,270 --> 00:08:49,560 anonymous. I wish to be 132 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,459 left alone. I don't make marry myself Christmas time and I can 133 00:08:53,459 --> 00:08:56,549 afford to help make a lot of idle people. Mary, I helped to 134 00:08:56,549 --> 00:08:59,609 support the establishments that take care of the poor they cost 135 00:08:59,609 --> 00:09:02,159 enough. Let those who are badly off go there. 136 00:09:02,189 --> 00:09:05,909 Many can't go there, sir. And many would rather die. 137 00:09:06,149 --> 00:09:08,759 Well, then my advice to them is to do so and decrease the 138 00:09:08,759 --> 00:09:12,239 surplus population. Besides, I've only your word for it 139 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,510 that all this is so it's the truth, Mr. Scrooge? 140 00:09:15,749 --> 00:09:19,349 Well, so be it then. It's not my business. It's enough for a man 141 00:09:19,349 --> 00:09:21,899 to understand his own business and not to interfere with other 142 00:09:21,899 --> 00:09:25,679 people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, sir. 143 00:09:26,129 --> 00:09:29,519 I quite understand Mr. Scrooge. Good afternoon. 144 00:09:29,909 --> 00:09:32,039 crotchet show this gentleman out. 145 00:09:32,069 --> 00:09:36,809 Yes, sir. This way, sir. Please. Sir. I couldn't help 146 00:09:36,809 --> 00:09:41,459 overhearing. I should like to contribute topics Karachi. Yes, 147 00:09:41,459 --> 00:09:46,739 sir. It isn't much, but it's all I can afford. But there are 148 00:09:46,739 --> 00:09:48,839 others in worse situations than I 149 00:09:49,230 --> 00:09:52,860 hear a generous fellow. No, I wish I might say so. Of your 150 00:09:52,860 --> 00:09:56,940 employer. crotch out. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, sir. 151 00:09:57,750 --> 00:09:58,560 Good afternoon. 152 00:09:58,589 --> 00:10:00,719 cron jobs. Mary Christmas. 153 00:10:01,139 --> 00:10:03,029 Merry Christmas. Yes, 154 00:10:03,029 --> 00:10:04,739 sir. Close the door. 155 00:10:05,250 --> 00:10:18,690 Yes sir. 2431 one carry three. A new scallop tip if attorney Tim 156 00:10:19,980 --> 00:10:27,060 cone from Arthur 33. Three and carry three. A haven for Belinda 157 00:10:27,750 --> 00:10:35,580 for 712 15. Project 50. Yes, sir. 158 00:10:35,820 --> 00:10:38,490 still like to have you got to forfeit girls. You'll be closed 159 00:10:38,490 --> 00:10:41,040 up for Christmas like those other fools. We may as well 160 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,210 close up the place now. 161 00:10:42,450 --> 00:10:47,040 Yes, sir. It is getting a little dark, hard to see the figures. 162 00:10:47,519 --> 00:10:51,149 I suppose you'll want the entire day tomorrow. If it's quite 163 00:10:51,149 --> 00:10:55,289 convenient. It's not convenient. And it's not fair either. But I 164 00:10:55,289 --> 00:10:58,079 suppose I can't do anything about it. If I was to stop half 165 00:10:58,079 --> 00:11:00,719 a crown of your wages. You'd think you're so very ill used 166 00:11:00,749 --> 00:11:05,489 I'll be bound. Well, sir, is but you don't think me ill used when 167 00:11:05,489 --> 00:11:09,599 I pay a day's wages for no work. It's only once a year, sir. Once 168 00:11:09,599 --> 00:11:13,199 a year, once a year indeed a fine excuse for picking up man's 169 00:11:13,199 --> 00:11:16,589 pocket every 25th of December. But I suppose there's no good 170 00:11:16,589 --> 00:11:20,219 talking. You must have the whole day. Well see that you're here 171 00:11:20,219 --> 00:11:22,409 all the earlier the next morning, you understand? 172 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:28,560 Oh, I will, sir. I will indeed. Good notes, and Merry Christmas. 173 00:11:29,310 --> 00:11:31,260 Merry Christmas ah. 174 00:11:36,419 --> 00:11:39,089 The office was closed in a twinkling and Bob Cratchit with 175 00:11:39,089 --> 00:11:41,939 the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his 176 00:11:41,939 --> 00:11:46,409 waist, for he boasted no gray coat, went down a slide on corn 177 00:11:46,409 --> 00:11:50,369 Hill 20 times in honor of it being Christmas Eve and then ran 178 00:11:50,369 --> 00:11:54,539 down home to Camden Town as hard as he could Pelt to play with 179 00:11:54,539 --> 00:12:01,859 his family at blind man's bluff. Scrooge on the other hand, took 180 00:12:01,859 --> 00:12:05,909 his melancholy dinner and his usual melancholy tavern. And 181 00:12:05,909 --> 00:12:08,699 having read the newspapers and spent the rest of the evening in 182 00:12:08,699 --> 00:12:13,499 his bankers book went to his dismal house. Darkness is cheap, 183 00:12:13,859 --> 00:12:18,809 and Scrooge liked it. The yard was so dark that even Scrooge 184 00:12:18,809 --> 00:12:22,019 who knew it's every stone had to grow up with his hands through 185 00:12:22,019 --> 00:12:27,059 the fog and frost to find the door. Scrooge walked through his 186 00:12:27,059 --> 00:12:32,969 rooms to see that all was right. sitting room, bedroom, lumber 187 00:12:32,969 --> 00:12:37,949 room all as they should be. Nobody under the table. Nobody 188 00:12:37,949 --> 00:12:41,909 under the sofa. Nobody under the bed. Nobody in the closet. 189 00:12:42,689 --> 00:12:47,759 Closed the door. He locked himself in. He double locked 190 00:12:47,759 --> 00:12:52,739 himself in, took off his robot put on his dressing slippers and 191 00:12:52,739 --> 00:12:57,239 nightcap and sat down before the fire to take his Google 192 00:13:14,190 --> 00:13:21,660 Marley, Marley, Marley. I could have sworn I saw old bah humbug. 193 00:13:22,290 --> 00:13:27,090 Molly's been dead the seven years humbug all humbug. What I 194 00:13:27,090 --> 00:13:34,920 need is a good night's What's that? Someone's in the place 195 00:13:36,330 --> 00:13:42,090 where the door's locked and double locked. It's, it's 196 00:13:42,090 --> 00:13:48,720 coming. Something's coming closer. outside my door. I won't 197 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,460 believe it. It's humbug. Still, 198 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:55,920 Ebenezer Scrooge, Ebenezer Scrooge? 199 00:13:57,779 --> 00:14:02,549 Marley. Oh, no. What do you want to be? 200 00:14:03,179 --> 00:14:10,469 I want much of you Ebony's. Who who are you? Ask of me who I 201 00:14:10,469 --> 00:14:11,519 was. 202 00:14:12,659 --> 00:14:15,989 You're very particular for a ghost. All right, then. Who were 203 00:14:15,989 --> 00:14:16,529 you? 204 00:14:17,250 --> 00:14:23,730 In life? I was your partner, Jacob Marley. Jacob Marley. 205 00:14:23,970 --> 00:14:26,670 But you're dead. You died seven years ago. 206 00:14:27,149 --> 00:14:32,459 Seven years ago. This very night. You are a ghost then? 207 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:37,559 What's wrong, Ebenezer? Don't you believe in me? 208 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:38,999 I do not. 209 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:43,800 You doubt your senses. Ebenezer 210 00:14:44,159 --> 00:14:47,399 bear? Yes, because a little thing affects me a slight 211 00:14:47,399 --> 00:14:50,399 disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You can't be a 212 00:14:50,399 --> 00:14:54,389 ghost. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, 213 00:14:54,389 --> 00:14:58,379 a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato that may be 214 00:14:58,379 --> 00:15:02,729 more of gravy than of gray. Eve about you wherever you are. Bah 215 00:15:02,729 --> 00:15:04,829 humbug, I tell you humbug. 216 00:15:10,950 --> 00:15:14,940 Oh, excuse me, excuse me. I do believe in you. You are a ghost 217 00:15:14,940 --> 00:15:20,160 Jacob. Thank you. Why do you walk the earth Jacob? Why do you 218 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:21,060 come to me? 219 00:15:21,299 --> 00:15:25,709 It is required over every man that the spirit within him 220 00:15:25,709 --> 00:15:31,259 should walk broad among his fellow men and travel far and 221 00:15:31,259 --> 00:15:36,119 wide to witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on 222 00:15:36,119 --> 00:15:39,749 Earth and turn to happiness. 223 00:15:39,990 --> 00:15:43,860 But tell me Jacob did what is that chain you wear around you? 224 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:45,150 I 225 00:15:45,179 --> 00:15:52,709 wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard 226 00:15:52,709 --> 00:15:59,849 by yard by my own free will. Is its pattern strange to you 227 00:15:59,879 --> 00:16:00,689 Ebony's 228 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:05,010 cash boxes, keys and padlocks, Ledger's and parses 229 00:16:05,970 --> 00:16:12,750 yours was as heavy and as long as this seven years ago. You 230 00:16:12,750 --> 00:16:16,290 have labored on it since Ebony's hace 231 00:16:16,289 --> 00:16:18,779 come? Speak comfort to me, Jacob. 232 00:16:20,490 --> 00:16:28,020 Comfort I have none to give. I cannot rest. I cannot stay I 233 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:35,040 cannot linger. Weary journeys lie before me. You travel fast. 234 00:16:35,730 --> 00:16:40,350 Yes, Ebony's on the wings of the wind. 235 00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:44,130 Seven years dead and traveling all the time. 236 00:16:44,340 --> 00:16:53,460 Seven years Ebenezer seven years of remorse. Ebenezer? Do you 237 00:16:53,460 --> 00:16:57,510 know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's 238 00:16:57,510 --> 00:16:59,220 opportunities miss you. 239 00:16:59,910 --> 00:17:02,370 But you are always a good man of business. Jacob 240 00:17:02,789 --> 00:17:10,319 baseness. Mankind was my business, charity, mercy, 241 00:17:10,799 --> 00:17:17,849 benevolence. They were all my business. The dealings of my 242 00:17:17,849 --> 00:17:22,079 trade were bought a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean 243 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:24,119 of my business. 244 00:17:24,299 --> 00:17:29,669 Not Jacob, Jacob to take on. So now. Jacob, listen to me, 245 00:17:29,669 --> 00:17:33,989 Ebenezer. I'm listening to you, Jacob. Go on Jacob. Now, speak 246 00:17:33,989 --> 00:17:35,789 to me. But don't be so flowery. 247 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:41,310 Ebenezer. I am here to warn you that you have yet a chance of 248 00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:48,480 hope of escaping my fate. Do you hear that? Ebenezer? 249 00:17:48,839 --> 00:17:53,099 Yes, Jacob, who? You always were a good friend to me, Jacob. 250 00:17:53,459 --> 00:17:58,349 Thanks, Jacob. But, but go on. Go on. Go on. Go on. How shall I 251 00:17:58,349 --> 00:18:00,359 escape? Oh, I'm afraid 252 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:06,419 Jacob. You will be haunted by three spirits? Is that the only 253 00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:11,519 chance and hope Jacob? It is your only chance and hope? Well, 254 00:18:11,519 --> 00:18:14,759 then I think I'd rather not. Without their visits, you cannot 255 00:18:14,759 --> 00:18:20,519 hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow when 256 00:18:20,519 --> 00:18:23,219 the bell tolls one. 257 00:18:23,310 --> 00:18:26,010 Could I take them all at once and have it over Jacob, 258 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,690 Ebenezer? Look but for your own sake, you'll remember what has 259 00:18:30,690 --> 00:18:37,800 passed between us. And remember, when the bell tolls one, look 260 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,720 for the spirit. 261 00:18:43,410 --> 00:18:45,900 Molly, tricot Marley, 262 00:18:48,210 --> 00:18:53,250 Scrooge awoke, he was laying in his bed fully dressed. Suddenly, 263 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,520 the curtains of his bed were drawn aside and screwed found 264 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,300 himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew him 265 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:05,430 as close to it as I am to you now. And I am standing in the 266 00:19:05,430 --> 00:19:12,150 spirit at your elbow. It was a strange figure like a child yet? 267 00:19:12,420 --> 00:19:16,860 Not so like a child is like a grown woman. Its hair, which 268 00:19:16,860 --> 00:19:19,800 hung about its neck and down. Its back was white as it with 269 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:25,980 age. And yet the face had not a wrinkle in it. And the tenderest 270 00:19:25,980 --> 00:19:31,170 bloom was on the skin. The arms were long and slender, the hands 271 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:35,640 the same. Yet it's as if it's hold were of uncommon string, 272 00:19:37,290 --> 00:19:45,120 Ebenezer Scrooge? Who? Who such as Ebenezer Scrooge, I have come 273 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:45,600 for you. 274 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:52,290 Oh, you are hard you the spirit who's coming was foretold me. 275 00:19:52,619 --> 00:19:54,299 I am that spirit. 276 00:19:54,690 --> 00:19:57,420 Wow. What are you? 277 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:04,500 I am the Ghost of Christmas Past Just long past. No. Your past. 278 00:20:05,339 --> 00:20:08,459 What do you want of me? What brings you here to haunt me? 279 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:13,769 Your welfare, Ebenezer Scrooge rice and walk with me? 280 00:20:14,430 --> 00:20:18,030 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, not out of the window. I can't do 281 00:20:18,030 --> 00:20:22,590 that I fall down. I'm not a spirit. I'm mortal and our fall, 282 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,460 but a touch of my hand upon your heart. And you shall be upheld 283 00:20:26,460 --> 00:20:29,970 and more than this. Come follow me 284 00:20:38,460 --> 00:20:44,880 where are we? What's become of the city? Snow upon the ground? 285 00:20:45,420 --> 00:20:46,380 Where are we? 286 00:20:46,859 --> 00:20:50,609 These are the shadows of the things that have been. You 287 00:20:50,609 --> 00:20:52,169 recognize this country side? 288 00:20:54,660 --> 00:20:58,200 Oh, I know every inch of it's every rock every tree. 289 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,630 And that Blake building over there. 290 00:21:02,069 --> 00:21:06,299 Oh, that building? I was a boy there. Yes. I went to school in 291 00:21:06,299 --> 00:21:06,959 that horrible 292 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,930 place. Do you recollect that path? 293 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,470 I could walk it blindfolded. Strange. You 294 00:21:13,470 --> 00:21:18,960 should forget it so many years. Come let us go closer. Look 295 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,710 through the window into that cold, barren room. What do you 296 00:21:22,710 --> 00:21:24,600 see Ebenezer Scrooge 297 00:21:25,410 --> 00:21:26,250 see a boy? 298 00:21:26,849 --> 00:21:31,919 A solitary child neglected by his family. Hello? 299 00:21:32,609 --> 00:21:38,579 Yes, yes, I see. I know that boy. I was so lonely. Boy, 300 00:21:39,210 --> 00:21:42,960 your lip is trembling Scrooge. What's that on your cheek? 301 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,550 It's nothing. Nothing at all. I wish I haven't. It's too late 302 00:21:47,550 --> 00:21:47,910 now. 303 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:49,530 What's the matter? 304 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,880 Nothing. Nothing. The wifs came to my door singing Christmas 305 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,210 carols last night. And there was a boy like that among them. A 306 00:21:57,210 --> 00:22:01,080 poor pale, thin little boy and ragged coat. I should like to 307 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,520 have given him something. That's all. 308 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:12,270 Is that all? Ebenezer Scrooge, let us see another Christmas. Do 309 00:22:12,270 --> 00:22:14,700 you know this place Ebenezer Scrooge? 310 00:22:15,329 --> 00:22:19,919 No it this is the old counting house where I was apprentice. 311 00:22:19,949 --> 00:22:25,349 Listen. Well, it's my old master Bless his heart. old Fezziwig my 312 00:22:25,349 --> 00:22:28,769 master alive again and host of one of his Christmas parties. 313 00:22:29,489 --> 00:22:30,359 Listen to him. 314 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:35,700 Hold hands with your partner bow and face away called screw 315 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,240 thread the needle and back to your places. 316 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:44,520 And there's dead Wilkins. Or dear God. Yes. And look, there's 317 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,060 Ms. Fezziwig herself, looking younger than any of them. And 318 00:22:48,060 --> 00:22:51,990 the tables all loaded with roast insider and mince pie and beer. 319 00:22:52,710 --> 00:22:54,750 Oh, what a jolly time we used to have 320 00:22:55,170 --> 00:22:59,160 that carefree young man the light hearted gay smile. Do you 321 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,150 recognize him? 322 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,930 Yes, yes, yes. Merciful. Oh, happy I was then 323 00:23:04,109 --> 00:23:07,319 a small matter for orphans make to make those silly folks so 324 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:08,219 full of joy. 325 00:23:08,339 --> 00:23:10,529 Small Matter. Small indeed, 326 00:23:11,430 --> 00:23:15,390 isn't it? He has spent only a few pounds of your mortal money 327 00:23:16,380 --> 00:23:18,600 is that so much that he deserves praise? 328 00:23:19,019 --> 00:23:22,409 It's not that it's not that spirit. old Fezziwig has the 329 00:23:22,409 --> 00:23:25,289 power to make us happy or unhappy to make our service 330 00:23:25,289 --> 00:23:30,119 light or heavy. His power lies in words and looks at hidden 331 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,089 things so tiny that it's impossible to count them up. The 332 00:23:33,089 --> 00:23:36,509 happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs her. 333 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:40,200 Yeah. What is the madam? 334 00:23:40,740 --> 00:23:42,930 Oh, nothing. Nothing at all spiritual. 335 00:23:43,410 --> 00:23:45,150 Something, I think. 336 00:23:46,170 --> 00:23:53,100 No, no. Speak. Well, only it's just that I should like to be 337 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:56,520 able to say a word or two to my clerk. Bob Cratchit. That's all. 338 00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:03,270 Swearing to your partner addressed the entire bow and 339 00:24:03,270 --> 00:24:05,580 curtsy thread the needle. 340 00:24:06,269 --> 00:24:09,989 My time grows short. And we have yet another journey to make. 341 00:24:10,289 --> 00:24:12,479 Where no. Come 342 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:24,420 This is our last visit to the past Ebenezer here in this 343 00:24:24,420 --> 00:24:29,700 little room with a fair young girl by your side. Do you 344 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:30,780 recognize yourself up? 345 00:24:31,290 --> 00:24:34,740 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's very this. 346 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:39,780 You're older now. A man in the prime of life. Your face has 347 00:24:39,780 --> 00:24:44,850 begun to weather signs of care. neveress Your eyes are greedy. 348 00:24:45,570 --> 00:24:51,900 be eager, restless eyes have a miser No, no, no, please. She 349 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:56,070 knows that to that girl by your side. There are tears in her 350 00:24:56,070 --> 00:24:56,640 eyes. 351 00:24:57,060 --> 00:25:03,570 It matters little heaven Isa. You very little. I know that. 352 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:08,400 Well, have I changed towards you? When we were engaged? We 353 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:09,450 were both poor. 354 00:25:09,839 --> 00:25:12,029 Was it better than better to be poor? 355 00:25:12,869 --> 00:25:18,539 Better to at least be happy? You're changed. You were another 356 00:25:18,539 --> 00:25:18,809 man 357 00:25:18,810 --> 00:25:22,620 that was a boy, you blame me because I've grown wiser. If I 358 00:25:22,620 --> 00:25:24,270 ever tried to break our engagement, 359 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,770 whites No, 360 00:25:26,819 --> 00:25:29,849 never. It was in, in a change 361 00:25:29,850 --> 00:25:34,680 nature, in an altered spirit in everything that made my love, 362 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:40,380 have any value in your sight. So I release you from this promise? 363 00:25:41,190 --> 00:25:46,560 Bell. At first, it may cause you pain to lose me. A very brief 364 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:52,410 pain. But soon it will be dim. Like a half remember dream, an 365 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:58,170 unprofitable dream. And you will be glad to be awake from such a 366 00:25:58,170 --> 00:26:02,730 dream. May you be happy him the life you have chosen Ebenezer 367 00:26:03,930 --> 00:26:05,820 for the love of Him you want to 368 00:26:05,819 --> 00:26:09,269 work? It's enough. Show me no more. Take me home. 369 00:26:09,750 --> 00:26:14,130 These were shadows of things that have been that they are 370 00:26:14,130 --> 00:26:19,890 what they are. Do not blame me. No, no more. No more. One shadow 371 00:26:19,890 --> 00:26:21,270 more. Come. 372 00:26:27,210 --> 00:26:32,160 See this man, Ebenezer Scrooge, this man might have been you and 373 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:37,020 the woman beside him. Your wife. And that girl? That girl might 374 00:26:37,020 --> 00:26:40,890 have been your daughter, Ebenezer Scrooge. She might have 375 00:26:40,890 --> 00:26:44,700 called you father. She might have been a springtime and the 376 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:46,470 haggard winter of your life. 377 00:26:46,859 --> 00:26:49,289 Spirit. Let me go show me no more. 378 00:26:49,829 --> 00:26:51,959 Listen now while they speak Ebenezer? 379 00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:55,080 Well, I saw an old friend of yours today. 380 00:26:55,410 --> 00:27:04,470 Who was it? abacus? How can I? It's I know. Mr. Scrooge. 381 00:27:04,589 --> 00:27:07,799 Mr. Scrooge it was a pastor's office window. There wasn't 382 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:10,679 shadows. There was a candle inside so I couldn't help seeing 383 00:27:10,679 --> 00:27:13,799 them as part of the Mali lights to the point of death, hi here. 384 00:27:14,069 --> 00:27:19,439 And then through sat all alone. Quite alone in the world. I do 385 00:27:19,439 --> 00:27:19,889 believe 386 00:27:20,819 --> 00:27:24,899 spiritual spirit. I can't bear any more leave me haunt me no 387 00:27:24,899 --> 00:27:29,369 more. Take me back. Take me back. Take me back. Take me 388 00:27:29,369 --> 00:27:29,879 back. 389 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,370 From the stroke of one, Scrooge awakened suddenly and sat bolt 390 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,240 upright in his own bed. He remembered the words of Marley's 391 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,240 ghost and wondered from which direction the second Spectre 392 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,320 would appear. At that moment, nothing between a baby and a 393 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,550 rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. Now, being 394 00:27:50,550 --> 00:27:55,110 prepared for almost anything he was not by any means prepared 395 00:27:55,830 --> 00:28:02,670 for nothing. And consequently, when no shape appeared, He was 396 00:28:02,670 --> 00:28:07,920 taken with a violent fit of trembling. Five minutes 10 397 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:15,300 minutes. A quarter of an hour went by. Yet nothing came. Then, 398 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,650 as he sat in his bed, he became aware gradually have a great 399 00:28:19,650 --> 00:28:23,940 blaze of ruddy light. It seemed to shine upon him from an 400 00:28:23,940 --> 00:28:29,340 adjoining room. He got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to 401 00:28:29,340 --> 00:28:35,040 the door. It was his own sitting room, no doubt about that. But 402 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,580 it had undergone a surprising transformation. The walls and 403 00:28:38,580 --> 00:28:41,970 ceiling were so hung with living grain that it looked a perfect 404 00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:46,410 Grove, from every part of which bright gleaming berries glisten, 405 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:50,250 and such a mighty Blaze went roaring up the chimney as had 406 00:28:50,250 --> 00:28:53,820 never been known in Scrooges time and for many and many a 407 00:28:53,820 --> 00:28:59,490 winter season gone. heaped up on the floor to form a kind of 408 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:05,310 throne or turkeys, geese game poultry these great joints of 409 00:29:05,310 --> 00:29:09,600 meat sucking pigs long reads of sausage mince pies, Plum 410 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,600 puddings, barrels of oysters, red hot chestnuts and the 411 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:17,310 seething bowl of punch that made the chamber dem with their 412 00:29:17,310 --> 00:29:22,290 delicious steam. In easy state upon this couch, there was a 413 00:29:22,290 --> 00:29:29,010 jolly giant, glorious to see. He bore a glowing torch and shape 414 00:29:29,010 --> 00:29:34,770 not unlike glenties horn and held it up high up to shed its 415 00:29:34,770 --> 00:29:38,880 light on Scrooge as he came peeping around the door. I 416 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:47,550 mean, come in Ebenezer Scrooge. I didn't know me better man. You 417 00:29:48,540 --> 00:29:59,640 you I have no Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me. You have 418 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,240 never seeing the light of me but 419 00:30:05,430 --> 00:30:10,170 you're, you're different from the other spirit. You're tall, 420 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,770 almost a giant and that great torch you carry 421 00:30:14,130 --> 00:30:21,570 it's light falls into the homes of the rich and the poor life. 422 00:30:22,380 --> 00:30:26,250 Spirit. Take me where you will last time I went against my will 423 00:30:26,250 --> 00:30:28,800 and learned a lesson which is working now. If you have 424 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,230 anything to teach me, let me profit by it. 425 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:39,660 Smile robe at Barney's us Rouge. Touch my robe 426 00:30:44,220 --> 00:30:45,780 Where have you brought me spirit 427 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:52,380 and humbled dwellings on both Street? 428 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:54,930 It's miserable enough. 429 00:30:55,710 --> 00:30:59,310 Yet? Where is happiness? 430 00:31:01,290 --> 00:31:04,950 Who are these people? Who's that woman and the children? 431 00:31:05,579 --> 00:31:11,429 Do you use all the family of your Cluck? Bob Cratchit 432 00:31:12,210 --> 00:31:12,780 Bo 433 00:31:13,020 --> 00:31:16,980 Missy is one wife dressed in a twice turn gown but brave in 434 00:31:16,980 --> 00:31:22,710 ribbons lay the table for Christmas dinner. Well, cystic 435 00:31:23,610 --> 00:31:27,120 is their daughter Melinda and the young man with a fork in the 436 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,040 stuffing. Well, that's master Peter Krafcik and the two little 437 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,180 graduates. Listen, Scrooge. 438 00:31:36,690 --> 00:31:38,040 Here's Martha mother. 439 00:31:39,420 --> 00:31:41,580 Children, children. 440 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,370 God bless your heart and live Martha My Dear. Merry Christmas 441 00:31:47,370 --> 00:31:47,850 to you. 442 00:31:48,510 --> 00:31:52,110 Merry Christmas, mother. Merry Christmas. 443 00:31:52,139 --> 00:31:53,489 How late you are Madea 444 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,260 Oh, we had a great deal of work to finish up last night. And we 445 00:31:58,260 --> 00:31:59,940 had to Caraway this morning. 446 00:32:00,690 --> 00:32:04,140 Well, nevermind so long as you're here now. sit you down 447 00:32:04,140 --> 00:32:08,190 before the fire Magdi and have a warm Lord bless you worse father 448 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,520 has been to church with Tiny Tim. There'll be a long directly 449 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:11,850 how 450 00:32:11,850 --> 00:32:14,760 is Tiny Tim mother any better at all? 451 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:21,510 Sometimes I think he is. And sometimes I think Oh dear God, 452 00:32:21,540 --> 00:32:24,390 if anything should happen to tiny tin 453 00:32:24,419 --> 00:32:26,819 Mother, you mustn't even think of such a thing. 454 00:32:27,690 --> 00:32:28,620 Oh, Mother, 455 00:32:28,679 --> 00:32:30,599 I see father and Tiny Tim. 456 00:32:30,810 --> 00:32:34,500 They're here. There's Tiny Tim. 457 00:32:35,099 --> 00:32:39,149 Merry Christmas, everybody. Martha. Welcome, my dear. 458 00:32:39,179 --> 00:32:42,689 Now we Christmas father and tear. Merry Christmas, Martha. 459 00:32:42,719 --> 00:32:43,949 Oh, Tim. 460 00:32:44,099 --> 00:32:45,269 you darling. Take 461 00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:46,770 your coat off. Father. I'm 462 00:32:46,770 --> 00:32:48,660 so glad to be home. Um, we're 463 00:32:48,660 --> 00:32:50,250 so glad to have you, Martha. 464 00:32:50,670 --> 00:32:53,730 And how did little Tim behave in church Bob? 465 00:32:53,879 --> 00:32:56,939 Oh, as good as gold. I'm better. Oh, 466 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:02,370 I like church mother. Oh, they sing the nicest songs. I hope 467 00:33:02,370 --> 00:33:03,570 people saw me there. 468 00:33:03,749 --> 00:33:07,739 saw you there. And why, Tim? 469 00:33:08,609 --> 00:33:14,459 Well, don't you see? Because I'm lame. And if they saw my crutch, 470 00:33:14,579 --> 00:33:18,569 it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day. Who 471 00:33:18,569 --> 00:33:21,959 it was the Maiden Lane beggars walk in blind men see? 472 00:33:23,609 --> 00:33:24,869 Bless you, my son. 473 00:33:25,619 --> 00:33:26,549 I'll be ready to eat 474 00:33:26,550 --> 00:33:32,430 mother. Yes, children. We're already come take your places 475 00:33:32,430 --> 00:33:39,270 now. And wait your turn. There's plenty of stuffing dressing and 476 00:33:39,270 --> 00:33:43,110 plum pudding for all of you. Martha. You take care of Tiny 477 00:33:43,110 --> 00:33:48,930 Tim. Yes, mother and see that he eats plenty. He must get strong 478 00:33:48,930 --> 00:33:53,100 and well. Let's sit down and sit down everyone. 479 00:33:53,999 --> 00:34:03,299 Ah, now my dad is shall we say grace? Our Father who art in 480 00:34:03,299 --> 00:34:05,759 heaven. Hallowed retuning, 481 00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:08,459 tell me if Tiny Tim will live. 482 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:13,740 I see. Great conceit, as it isn't her love horror chimney 483 00:34:13,740 --> 00:34:20,640 corner and a crutch without an owner. carefully preserved. 484 00:34:20,910 --> 00:34:25,500 Oh, no, no, no, no, no kind spirit say he will be spared. We 485 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:26,370 say you're live. 486 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:32,010 Emily's shadows remain on altered by the future Ebenezer 487 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,310 the child will die. 488 00:34:36,540 --> 00:34:40,950 And now my dears with such a dinner, a toast. A Merry 489 00:34:40,950 --> 00:34:46,170 Christmas to us all. And God blesses. God bless us, everyone. 490 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,710 Her now to Mr. Scrooge. I give you a toast to Mr. Scrooge, the 491 00:34:52,710 --> 00:34:54,330 founder of the feast, 492 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,740 the founder of the feast indeed. Who pays you all 15 shillings a 493 00:34:58,740 --> 00:35:03,120 week. Oh wish I hadn't here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to 494 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,120 feast on and I hope you'd have a good appetite for 495 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,690 it. My dear the children, Christmas Day, 496 00:35:09,810 --> 00:35:13,020 it should be Christmas day I'm sure on which one drinks to the 497 00:35:13,020 --> 00:35:18,330 health of such an odious, stingy and unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge 498 00:35:19,410 --> 00:35:23,400 you know knows he is Bob. Nobody knows it better than you do. 499 00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:24,960 Poor fellow, 500 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,090 my dear Christmas Day, 501 00:35:27,509 --> 00:35:32,099 or drink his health for your sake, and the days, not for his 502 00:35:32,669 --> 00:35:37,109 long life to him. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 503 00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:41,099 It'll be very merry and very happy. I have no doubt. 504 00:35:41,609 --> 00:35:46,229 I say God bless him to mother and everyone. 505 00:35:50,580 --> 00:35:54,540 That was nothing of hi Mark and all this. They were not a 506 00:35:54,540 --> 00:35:58,170 handsome family these Cratchit they were not well dressed. 507 00:35:58,740 --> 00:36:02,880 Their shoes were far from being waterproof. Their clothes were 508 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,290 scanty and had known very likely the inside of a pawn brokers. 509 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:13,320 But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another and 510 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:19,950 contented with time. And when at last they faded, Scrooge had his 511 00:36:19,950 --> 00:36:28,500 eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last many 512 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:31,290 calls Scrooge made that night when the Ghost of Christmas 513 00:36:31,290 --> 00:36:35,700 Present down among the miners, to labor in the bowels of the 514 00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:41,340 earth. And out to see among the sailors at their watch, dark and 515 00:36:41,340 --> 00:36:46,350 ghostly figures in there several stations. Much they saw and far 516 00:36:46,350 --> 00:36:50,760 they went and many places they visited, but always with a happy 517 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,840 end. The spirits stood beside sick beds, and they were 518 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,070 cheerful on foreign lands, and they were close at home by 519 00:36:59,070 --> 00:37:04,680 poverty, and it was rich in ALMS house, hospital and jail where 520 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:09,210 vain man and his little brief authority had not made fast the 521 00:37:09,210 --> 00:37:13,050 door and borrowed the spirit out. The spirit left his 522 00:37:13,050 --> 00:37:19,530 blessings. It was a long night, if it was only a night. And it 523 00:37:19,530 --> 00:37:23,670 was strange to that while Scrooge remained unaltered in 524 00:37:23,670 --> 00:37:29,220 his outward form. The ghost grew older, clearly older, 525 00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:35,310 my life upon this globe is very brief, Ebenezer. It ends 526 00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:43,860 tonight. Tonight. Tonight at midnight Park. The hour is come. 527 00:37:44,010 --> 00:37:47,460 Oh, no, no, no, not yet. Not yet. There are still more things 528 00:37:47,460 --> 00:37:48,210 I wish to learn 529 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:54,900 these you will learn from still another spirit. Still another 530 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:57,210 spirit, Ebenezer 531 00:37:59,790 --> 00:38:02,970 Scrooge look about him for the ghost that had vanished and had 532 00:38:02,970 --> 00:38:06,510 found himself once more in his bed in his dressing gown and his 533 00:38:06,510 --> 00:38:14,070 nightcap. He heard the clock strike. And then he remembered 534 00:38:14,070 --> 00:38:18,960 the prediction of old Jacob Marley. And lifting up his eyes 535 00:38:20,070 --> 00:38:28,950 beheld the third spirit a solemn phantom shrouded in black draped 536 00:38:28,950 --> 00:38:36,360 and hooded coming towards him slowly and silently like a mist 537 00:38:37,020 --> 00:38:37,980 along the ground 538 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:50,520 I know you you you are the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. You'll 539 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,220 show me shadows of the things that have not happened but will 540 00:38:53,220 --> 00:38:56,790 happen in the time before us. That's when the Spirit ghost of 541 00:38:56,790 --> 00:39:02,040 the future I fear you more than any specter I've seen yet I know 542 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,280 your purpose is to do me good as I hope to live to be another man 543 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:10,680 from what I was lead on lead on the nights waiting faster times 544 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:18,660 precious spirit Why have you brought me here again? Here to 545 00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:23,910 bum crutches home. But it's not the same way. Why is it so 546 00:39:23,910 --> 00:39:26,520 quiet? So very quiet here 547 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:47,340 my son, my little son, Tiny. I loved him so 548 00:39:49,620 --> 00:39:54,570 Oh, mother, dear, you mustn't. It's almost time for father to 549 00:39:54,570 --> 00:39:57,210 be home. Don't let him see you crying 550 00:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,460 yes 551 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:05,850 Yes, ma'am. He's late tonight. He walks slower than he used to. 552 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:11,550 And yet I've known him to walk very fast indeed. With Tiny Tim 553 00:40:11,550 --> 00:40:15,210 on his shoulder, so have I mother, but he was like to 554 00:40:15,210 --> 00:40:21,270 carry. And his father loved him so that it was no trouble. No 555 00:40:21,270 --> 00:40:21,720 trouble 556 00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,619 it. Good evening, my dear Bob. 557 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:27,840 You're late, Bob. 558 00:40:29,340 --> 00:40:34,770 Yes, I'm sorry, my dear. I went to the church here today. I wish 559 00:40:34,770 --> 00:40:38,190 you could have gone with me. It it would have done your heart. 560 00:40:38,190 --> 00:40:42,660 Good to see how sweet and greener place it is. But you'll 561 00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:48,000 see it often. I promised him. Yes. I promised Tiny Tim we'd 562 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,290 walk there on a Sunday. 563 00:40:49,770 --> 00:40:53,460 Father's here. It's God's will bob. 564 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:59,670 I'm trying to understand it my dear. My son, my little son, 565 00:40:59,940 --> 00:41:02,880 Tiny Tim. And I loved him so 566 00:41:06,060 --> 00:41:11,040 Oh, that's cruel, cruel spirit. Can you give me one ray of hope 567 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:17,340 that I may change all that. That Tiny Tim may live? Where are you 568 00:41:17,340 --> 00:41:21,360 taking me now? Here on a common street spirit? What is there for 569 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,760 me to learn here? Who are those men? 570 00:41:24,509 --> 00:41:28,019 Lie down too much about it. Either way, I only know he's 571 00:41:28,019 --> 00:41:32,129 dead. Or indeed he doy last night I believe 572 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,030 it's likely to be a very cheap funeral for upon my life. I 573 00:41:36,030 --> 00:41:40,530 don't know anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and 574 00:41:40,530 --> 00:41:41,700 volunteer. I don't 575 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:43,620 mind going if a Lunch is provided. 576 00:41:46,530 --> 00:41:50,100 Come to think of it off. But I was best friend what we used to 577 00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:52,110 not do each other when we met in the street. 578 00:41:56,460 --> 00:42:00,360 Spirit tell me who is this man that died? Is there no one to 579 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,510 mourn this poor creature? No one to follow him to the grave. 580 00:42:04,140 --> 00:42:07,290 Perhaps they'll give him a green grave at least like poor Tiny 581 00:42:07,290 --> 00:42:15,840 Tim. Perhaps. Spirit where are we now? Merciful heaven 582 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:20,490 churchyard will run my grass and weeds choked up with too much 583 00:42:20,490 --> 00:42:25,860 bearing desolate, lonely, crumbling gravestone. Spirit 584 00:42:25,860 --> 00:42:28,620 before I draw nearer to that gravestone, answer me one 585 00:42:28,620 --> 00:42:32,250 question. Are these shadows of things that will be or are they 586 00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:37,860 shadows of things that may be only when you're not speak to me 587 00:42:37,860 --> 00:42:45,870 spirit? What is that grave to which you point? out writing on 588 00:42:45,870 --> 00:42:52,350 that stone? The name on the gravestone is Ebenezer Scrooge. 589 00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:57,720 Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh, no. No spirit. No, no, no, no, no. Hear 590 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:01,320 me. I am not a man. I was why show me this. If I am past all 591 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,740 hope, telling me that I can change these dreadful shadows 592 00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:08,250 you have shown me by an altered life. I will honor Christmas in 593 00:43:08,250 --> 00:43:12,120 my heart. I'll try to keep it all the year. I live in the past 594 00:43:12,180 --> 00:43:15,030 the present and the future. And I will not shut off the lessons 595 00:43:15,030 --> 00:43:18,330 that they teach. Tell me spirit. Oh, go on. Tell me tell me that 596 00:43:18,330 --> 00:43:21,960 I can sponge away the writing on the stone spirit. I beg you 597 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:29,610 spirit. I beg you. Spirit I promise. I promise on my knees. 598 00:43:29,730 --> 00:43:40,110 I promise I promise. I once this hits my own bedpost, huh. I'm 599 00:43:40,110 --> 00:43:43,650 home in my own bed in my own room 600 00:43:49,830 --> 00:43:55,020 and a son a sunshiny it's clear. It's bright. No clouds. What a 601 00:43:55,020 --> 00:44:01,110 beautiful day. Oh, glorious, glorious. A boy. Oh boy. Yes, 602 00:44:01,110 --> 00:44:03,780 sir. What's today? 603 00:44:04,140 --> 00:44:05,340 What's that, sir? 604 00:44:05,670 --> 00:44:09,180 What day? Is it my fine fellow today? What why it's Christmas 605 00:44:09,180 --> 00:44:13,830 Day. Christmas Day, then I haven't missed it. The spirits 606 00:44:13,830 --> 00:44:16,590 have done it all in one night. All in one night. Heaven be 607 00:44:16,590 --> 00:44:21,270 praised. How was that sir? Listen, my lead. Do you know 608 00:44:21,270 --> 00:44:26,280 where the Poulter is in the next street? I should say I do. Ha an 609 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,130 intelligent boy. A remarkable boy. Tell me do you know if 610 00:44:29,130 --> 00:44:31,740 they've sold the price Turkey that was hanging in the window? 611 00:44:31,979 --> 00:44:33,149 The one is biggest me. 612 00:44:34,980 --> 00:44:38,160 What a delightful boy. It's a pleasure talking to you. Yes, my 613 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:42,300 buck. It's hanging there now, sir. That's wonderful. Go around 614 00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:44,790 with you. And tell them to send it to Bob Prichard and his 615 00:44:44,790 --> 00:44:47,850 family on Broad Street and mind you they're not to know who paid 616 00:44:47,850 --> 00:44:51,960 for it. Hurry hurry my lead. Here. Wait a minute. Here's half 617 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:52,980 a crown for your trouble. 618 00:44:53,010 --> 00:44:55,500 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. In a Merry Christmas. 619 00:44:56,790 --> 00:45:01,350 Merry Christmas to you, my boy. Oh, I don't know what to do if 620 00:45:01,350 --> 00:45:05,340 it's light as a feather. I'm as happy as an angel. I Miss Mary 621 00:45:05,340 --> 00:45:11,700 as a schoolboy. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to everybody. A 622 00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:19,680 happy new year to all the world. My dear sir, how do you do? 623 00:45:20,190 --> 00:45:21,360 I beg your pardon? 624 00:45:22,469 --> 00:45:24,899 You sir, aren't you the gentleman who came to my office 625 00:45:24,899 --> 00:45:26,129 in regard to that charity? 626 00:45:26,610 --> 00:45:27,390 Why yes, 627 00:45:27,390 --> 00:45:29,460 sir. A Merry Christmas to you. 628 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:30,900 Yes, sir. 629 00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:33,840 Allow me to ask your pardon, sir. And what do you want the 630 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,480 goodness to accept? I prefer to whisper this. 631 00:45:38,460 --> 00:45:44,160 One Why, Lord bless me, my dear Mr. Scrooge. Are you serious? 632 00:45:44,190 --> 00:45:47,970 If you please, now, not a father, unless a great many back 633 00:45:47,970 --> 00:45:51,480 payments are included in it? I assure you. Will you do me that 634 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:51,960 favor? 635 00:45:52,530 --> 00:45:56,310 My dear sir, I do not know what to say to such munificence. 636 00:45:56,550 --> 00:45:59,640 Nah, don't say anything. Please come and see me. Will you come 637 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:00,150 and see me? 638 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,429 I will. I will, indeed. 639 00:46:02,699 --> 00:46:05,939 Thank you. I am much obliged to you. I thank you. 50 times. 640 00:46:05,969 --> 00:46:08,069 Bless you. Merry Christmas. 641 00:46:08,699 --> 00:46:12,299 The next morning Scrooge was early at his office. He went 642 00:46:12,329 --> 00:46:16,919 early for a reason. If he could only be there first and catch 643 00:46:16,919 --> 00:46:21,179 Bob Cratchit coming late. That was the thing he had set upon 644 00:46:21,179 --> 00:46:26,339 his heart. And he did it. Yes, he did. The clock struck nine. 645 00:46:26,729 --> 00:46:33,629 No Bob. Quarter past. No, Bob screwed sat with his door wide 646 00:46:33,629 --> 00:46:39,299 open that he might see him come in. And at last he came in his 647 00:46:39,299 --> 00:46:44,369 hat was off before he opened the door his Comforter to he was on 648 00:46:44,369 --> 00:46:48,779 his stool in a jiffy driving away with his pen. As if you 649 00:46:48,779 --> 00:46:50,759 were trying to overtake nine o'clock. 650 00:46:51,930 --> 00:46:59,010 Eight and 15 and 21. Six and carry the 124 and carry the 231 651 00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:00,780 eight and nine. Hello? You 652 00:47:00,809 --> 00:47:04,259 crush it? Yes, sir. Step this week, graduates if you please. 653 00:47:05,669 --> 00:47:08,759 Graduate. What do you mean by coming in at this time of day? 654 00:47:08,850 --> 00:47:13,470 I'm very sorry, sir. I am behind my time. You are yes, yes, 655 00:47:13,469 --> 00:47:15,839 I think you are. It's only 656 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,590 once a year Mr. Scrooge. It shall not be repeated. I was 657 00:47:19,590 --> 00:47:21,480 making rather than marry yesterday. So 658 00:47:21,570 --> 00:47:23,790 I'll tell you what, my friend. I will not stand this sort of 659 00:47:23,790 --> 00:47:26,910 thing any longer. And therefore Bob Cratchit. I'm about to raise 660 00:47:26,910 --> 00:47:27,540 your salary. 661 00:47:28,770 --> 00:47:32,160 Mr. Scrooge. Are you quite yourself, sir? 662 00:47:32,730 --> 00:47:36,330 No, no, thank heaven. I'm not quite myself. Merry Christmas, 663 00:47:36,330 --> 00:47:40,770 Bob. Merry Christmas, my good fellow, a Merry Christmas than I 664 00:47:40,770 --> 00:47:44,040 have given you in many a year. I shall raise your salary. And 665 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,170 we'll see what we can do for Tiny Tim and the rest of your 666 00:47:46,170 --> 00:47:49,260 family. Huh? We'll discuss it this very afternoon over a 667 00:47:49,260 --> 00:47:56,700 Christmas Bowl of smoking Bishop. Bob, make up the fire, 668 00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:02,040 make it up and buy another coal scuttle. Before you dot another 669 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,690 AI Bob Cratchit. 670 00:48:04,890 --> 00:48:08,760 Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and 671 00:48:08,820 --> 00:48:13,710 infinitely more. To Tiny Tim who did not die. He was a second 672 00:48:13,710 --> 00:48:18,750 father. He became as good a friend as good a master as good 673 00:48:18,750 --> 00:48:23,700 a man as the good old city New, or any other good old city, town 674 00:48:23,730 --> 00:48:28,800 or borough in the good old world. Some people laugh to see 675 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,340 the alteration in him. But he let them laugh and little heated 676 00:48:32,340 --> 00:48:39,000 them. His Own Heart laughs mad was quite enough for him. He had 677 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,270 no further intercourse with spirits but lived upon the total 678 00:48:42,270 --> 00:48:46,230 abstinence principle ever afterwards. And it was always 679 00:48:46,230 --> 00:48:52,860 said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas. Well, If any man 680 00:48:52,860 --> 00:49:03,300 alive, possessed the knowledge may that truly be said of us and 681 00:49:03,330 --> 00:49:10,530 all of us. And so as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us. Every 682 00:49:10,530 --> 00:49:15,660 one. Lady ladies and gentlemen at this point in the program, 683 00:49:15,660 --> 00:49:18,540 it's my custom as you know to thank the voice talent that's 684 00:49:18,540 --> 00:49:22,980 helping us tell our story. There will be full biographical links 685 00:49:23,010 --> 00:49:26,910 in the show notes for this episode. We meet as Paul would 686 00:49:26,910 --> 00:49:30,090 like to wish each and every one of you out there a very Merry 687 00:49:30,090 --> 00:49:32,760 Christmas and a Happy New Year. And we would like to thank our 688 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,900 cast for their amazing performances. Scrooge young and 689 00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:41,700 old, played by Kylie bear, Bob Cratchit and Fezziwig the caller 690 00:49:41,730 --> 00:49:45,690 or played by Lee Beckett caroler and man on street were played by 691 00:49:45,690 --> 00:49:50,610 West Haas nephew Fred was Kyle Jensen. Charity collector was 692 00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,870 Ian Knowles. Jacob Marley was Oliver Smith. The Ghost of 693 00:49:54,870 --> 00:49:59,160 Christmas Past was Nicole Good night. Bella was played by Thea 694 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,990 stone Bella's husband was played by Seamus Ghost of Christmas 695 00:50:03,990 --> 00:50:07,950 Present was played by Nick the rat. Mrs. Cratchit was played by 696 00:50:07,950 --> 00:50:12,540 Danielle's eye. Martha Cratchit was played by Finley Smith, 697 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:17,790 Belinda Cratchit was played by Robin Huff. Tiny Tim was Ariana 698 00:50:17,790 --> 00:50:22,410 Cooper. And Matt on street number two Cersei Twitter. And 699 00:50:22,410 --> 00:50:27,450 last but not least, Goose boy was played by Leila meet us. And 700 00:50:27,450 --> 00:50:30,300 now, as Tiny Tim says, 701 00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,609 bless us, everyone