James Harkin

Dan's got it.

Is that it?

It was read by a Dickens, but not who Dickens.

It was read by Monica Dickens, who's his great-granddaughter, herself a novelist.

She wrote 40 novels.

I picked up a book by her today.

She had listened to her grandfather, i.e.

Charles Dickens' son, reading A Christmas Carol.

Lots.

And he had a version of A Christmas Carol which had all of the original Dickens annotations in it.

Which words to stress, which words to leave out, which way to lean this and that.

So it was properly annotated.

And she, in 1950, recorded that version of A Christmas Carol.

So weirdly, through three generations, we have four generations.

We have the Dickens approved version of A Christmas Carol.

It's really interesting.

The copying and the plagiarism.

I think we might have mentioned before that Dickens was pirated a lot because he released them bit by bit.

People could piggyback on that and then overtake him.

So people, plagiarists would pump out works like Oliver Twist, Martin Guzzlewit or whatever.