LIVE Radio Play: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol adapted by Bart Meehan

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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol adapted by Bart Meehan

2026 has been swept up in the popularity and sheer joy of live radio theatre at The Mill. What began with The Dear Departed as part of the Upstageing Festival in March has grown into a series audiences have embraced, bringing actors, live foley, music and the craft of radio drama together in the room. With the support of Mojo Guitars, Groove Warehouse and Sidestage Productions, we’ve taken audiences from the family chaos of The Dear Departed to the riverbanks and Wild Wood of The Wind in the Willows, inviting them to watch an entire radio play being created in real time and experience the magic of building a world through sound.

And this December, we’re heading somewhere a little more haunted.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the most enduring ghost stories in the English literary canon. First published in 1843, the story follows the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, whose bleak Christmas Eve is interrupted by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Warned of three further visitations, Scrooge is taken through Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come confronting his regrets, his choices and the possibility of becoming someone different.

Now, this much-loved story comes to The Mill as a thrilling live radio play. Following the sold-out success of the previous productions, audiences will once again gather around the microphones as actors perform, foley artists create the sounds of Victorian London live,…