Retired Oaklands teacher Brian Oxberry's Christmas Carol fundraising marathon
You recite the whole of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, of course - 100 times. Former Oakland teacher Brian Oxberry did it all in just 26.2 days, too - making 100 performances in a 'marathon' of days. "I was a bit worried that my voice might wear out!" he admitted. "But if anything it got stronger!" Brian, a member of the Malton Dickens Society who has been performing his 40-minute adaptation of A Christmas Carol to local audiences for years, started his marathon on November 23. He completed it with nine recitals in front of a small and socially-distanced audience at the Friends...
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