Bob Cratchit
It’s a constant struggle for Bob to make ends meet and feed the many mouths in his family.
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A miserly employer and a sick son doesn't help his situation, but Bob sees the best in everyone and everything. He has his , his children and a roof over his head and who’d want more than that?
About Robert Wilfort
Robert Wilfort’s numerous television credits include the role of George Cavendish in Peter Kosminsky’s adaptation of , the role of Jason in , a series regular in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Three's and E4's hit Skins.
His film credits include, Sasha Baron Cohen’s feature The Brother’s Grimsby, The Huntsman, the British comedy Man Up, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Mike Leigh’s feature All of Nothing.
Christmas dinner with the Cratchits
The Cratchit family are the beating heart of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Christmas dinner with the Cratchits is one of the most iconic scenes from Dickens’s fiction:
"Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course: and in truth it was something very like it in that house. Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said. It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by the apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs. Cratchit said with a great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last!"
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave three
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