Introducing Season 2 of Morrison Mysteries: A Christmas Carol 02:01

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 glares at the joy bursting all around him, joy because it's Christmas Eve, and he grows even meaner and harder and colder still.

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 Scrooge.

You may think you know his tale of woe, all bah humbug of it, but most have 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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