Bonus festive episode: Jane reads A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This bonus episode has nothing to do with plants! It's just a bit of fun. I read an abridged version of the classic Christmas story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I hope it'll be a relaxing listen, but if you're just here for the houseplants, skip this one and check out my back catalogue of more than 160 planty episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this special bonus edition of On the Ledge. |
| 0:18.3 | Every year in the run up to December the 25th, I reread a Christmas Carol by Charles |
| 0:25.4 | Dickens. I studied the works of Dickens for a whole year as part of my undergraduate degree |
| 0:31.1 | in English literature, and for all his faults, and he does have some, I just love his work. |
| 0:39.1 | And I love reading this story in the run-up to Christmas because it makes me feel so very nostalgic. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm bringing you today a heavily abridged version of the story. |
| 0:51.0 | If I did the whole of the story, it would probably take about three hours to listen. |
| 0:56.2 | So this is a shortened version for you to enjoy. Hopefully you're familiar with the story at its heart. |
| 1:04.3 | But if you've never actually read the text and you've only ever seen TV or film adaptations, |
| 1:09.5 | you might be in for a bit of a surprise. |
| 1:12.3 | I really hope you enjoy listening to this. |
| 1:15.1 | If you want to read the full story, it is available online, |
| 1:18.1 | and I'll put a link to that in the show notes. |
| 1:21.2 | I've said it before, but I'm going to say it again. |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you for being brilliant people this year and every year. And here's to 2021, bringing us |
| 1:31.4 | even more fascinating encounters with plants. Right, without any further ado, I'm going to settle down |
| 1:39.5 | next to my crackling fire with Wolfie at my feet to read to you from |
| 1:46.3 | A Christmas Carol in Prose being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens, first |
| 1:53.2 | published in 1843. |
| 2:04.3 | Stave 1 Marley's Ghost |
| 2:06.0 | Marley was dead |
| 2:11.4 | to begin with |
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