LISTEN: Download WPPB's 'A Christmas Carol'

Peconic Public Broadcasting's radio adaption of "A Christmas Carol," in their Southampton studios and debuted on Black Friday, is now available online to listen anytime.

The one-hour abridged audio play can be downloaded by visiting peconicpublicbroadcasting.org or by clicking here.

With the belief that radio is the "theater of the mind," WPPB's production was inspired by the 1939 Campbell Playhouse adaptation by Orson Welles, according to producer Bonnie Grice.

It was directed by Michael Disher, the artistic director of at the , and engineered by Kyle Lynch.

The cast includes Dan Becker as Scrooge; Josh Gladstone, the artistic director of The John Drew Theater at , as the narrator, Marley and Fezziwig; Paul Bolger as Bob Crachit; Barbara Jo Howard as Mrs. Crachit; Katie Kneeland at Tiny Tim; Tristan Vaughan as Scrooge’s nephew and young Scrooge; Brooke Alexander as the Ghost of Christmas Past; Rosemary Cline are Scrooge’s fiancee and Crachit’s daughter; Meryn Anders as Scrooge’s sister, Fan; Terrance Fiore as the Ghost of Christmas Present; Rupert Stow as a collector for charity; Julia Tyson as two different children; and yours truly, Brendan O’Reilly, the editor of Southampton Patch, as Belle’s husband.

The play will air four more times this holiday season on WPPB 88.3 FM:

• Friday Dec. 16, 7 p.m.
• Friday Dec. 23, 11 a.m.  
• Saturday Dec. 24, 4 p.m.
• Sunday Dec. 25, noon