Join the Allusionist over on YouTube.com/allusionistshow for the second of four livestreams of the "redistribute the wealth! You can't take it with you!" fable for our times: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Helen Zaltzman reads the book (aloud - you won't just have to watch her quietly turning pages) with music and visuals by Martin Austwick.

If you want to read along with your own copy of the book, do! This second stream will be Stave 2 of the book, wherein Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas Past and is taken on a whistlestop tour of festivities from his boyhood and earlier adulthood, so he gets to see himself becoming ever more of a prick.

This and all the other livestreams in the Christmas Carollusionist series will be available afterwards for not-live viewing at youtube.com/allusionistshow.

There's also a great Allusionist episode, How The Dickens Stole Christmas, about why Christmas is so Dickens-y, hear/read it at theallusionist.org/dickens-christmas.

For more of Martin Austwick's music and other work, check out palebirdmusic.com and martinaustwick.com.

These Christmas Carol livestreams are free, but if you want to chip in a little money, take yourself to theallusionist.org/donate.