Author’s relative goes back to where it began '); A Christmas Carol in Henley. Gerald Dickens will present his one-man show at the Spice Merchant restaurant at 7.30pm next Sunday (December 20). The performance will see Gerald playing all the characters from Ebenezer Scrooge to the three spirits. Gerald, 57, who lives in Abingdon, said: “ A Christmas Carol was Dickens’s most popular reading when he toured Britain and America. “So we know what part of the story he thought was important to perform and the way he wished it to be heard. “With the illustrations, Dickens was insistent that the artists created exactly what he envisaged in the writing and he would send pictures back if they didn’t capture that right tone or mood.