 He made several other spoken-word recordings, one of his most famous being his one-man album of Charles Dickens's "Mr. Pickwick's Christmas", a twenty-minute version of the Christmas chapter from Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers".It was first released by American Decca in 1944 as a four-record 78-rpm set, but was afterward transferred to LP.It frequently appeared on LP with a companion piece, Decca's 1941 adaptation of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol", starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge.