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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 472: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens -- review and comment
Description: To help you get in the holiday spirit, here's the latest edition of P&C's "shortcut to the classics." The expanded crew drinks and reviews Sam Adams' Old Fezziwig ale and discusses the Charles Dickens classic.
Special guest Longinus starts the show with a brief bio of Dickens and provides some historical context to the story.
The boys discuss how the book differs from the various movie versions (not much), and provide background on some of the more striking and interesting details.
There are also 19th century concepts and terms we're not used...