Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol has been reimagined by playwright Marie Jones in the setting of Victorian Belfast. It features familiar accents and unfolds against the backdrop of the city's entries and backstreets - and landmarks such as the Oyster Rooms and St Peter's Cathedral.

From punk and indie to hip-hop and alternative rock, these unconventional Christmas songs take a different approach to the holidays. The list highlights tracks that favor storytelling, mood and honesty over tradition.

Our favorite Scrooges, Marleys, Bob Cratchits and ghosts ranked in our list of the best adaptations of A Christmas Carol of all time.

Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 19th-century London, the holiday went viral.Guests:Leon Litvack, professor of Victorian Studies at Queen's University in Belfast and editor of the Charles Dickens Letters project.

An author hopes to revive a lost Cumbrian Christmas carol that would have likely last been sung in public at the end of the 19th Century. Alan Cleaver discovered handwritten lyrics to an Eskdale Christmas Carol while at a history exhibition in Whitehaven.

Many of us have watched The Muppet Christmas Carol more than we can count — but far fewer have seen "When Love is Gone," the moving ballad performed by actress Meredith Braun and Michael Caine. The song takes place midway through the film,

To skirt the now-grating classics and AI slop, we’ve compiled a playlist of tunes spanning folk, R&B, and alt-rock, all from 2000 and onwards.

Drinking Christmas songs, romantic Christmas songs, rowdy Christmas songs and spiritual Christmas songs all make this list.

Christmas won’t be Christmas without A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens added to the celebration. Such has been so for me since my mother told me the story of Ebenezer Scrooge when I was a kid.