"A Christmas Carol" All-Star Team - Day 16

Now that we've selected the minor characters for our "A Christmas Carol" All-Star Team, we turn to a more of a concept than a character.

Part of the appeal of the book is the wonderful expository descriptions of the scenes and actions.
A lot of different adaptations use a narrator, so we ant a good one for our team. And who better than Orson Welles?

Welles was a terrific radio actor with a great voice and he does full justice to Dickens's text on the radio broadcasts he did for "The Campbell Playhouse" in the 1930s.

We'll choose the 1939 broadcast which starred Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. Orson gets plenty of airtime on that version and he doesn't have to worry about doubling as Scrooge, although I'm sure he had a blast when he did that on the 1938 broadcast.

The 1939 broadcast is one of my favorite adaptations, so it's good to have it represented as well!

Now that we have an awesome narrator to set the scene, we'll move on to the major characters!