Salford based actor and avid rambler, Adrian Palmer, has been getting creative during this year'south lockdown by hosting online readings of some of the nation's best-loved novels and fairytales, called Story Circumvolve, he performs live over Zoom.

This Friday the 18th of December, he will be live reading Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' via Zoom to help become people in the Christmas spirit.

It has been a strange year for almost with the affect of the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. Many take been unable to run across their friends and loved ones, and in a time of 'social-distancing' and 'isolating' to protect others from the virus, socialising has become a fond retention, for now at least.

Adrian Palmer. Credit: The Ramblers

Mr. Palmer shared how he has coped throughout the duration of lockdown and how it has affected his acting career: "Non too bad, yous know, actors are pretty used to beingness periodically unemployed.

"I had a overnice niggling year planned out with a couple of jobs in the theatre, and so on, which disappeared without a trace, but hopefully they'll come back when the pandemic is over and lockdown is eased."

Salford based actor, Adrian Palmer. Credit: Holly Pritchard.

Mr. Palmer managed to keep himself decorated while doing what he does all-time and finding new ways of performing live for people: "In the meantime I've been spending a lot of time reading stories online. I started off reading to a couple of friends and then I read to family unit members, so I got a job reading to an online book society."

Equally many people have been left feeling alone and isolated this past year and have perhaps been struggling with their mental health, Mr. Palmer's idea took off and get-go became a popular virtual entertainment event amid his family and friends which led him to read to groups of people online:

"People really enjoyed it and I found that the groups I read for kept coming back calendar week after week and they would kind of wait forwards to it."

Not only does Mr. Palmer savour performing alive, he besides enjoys walking through nature: "I'one thousand also a swell rambler. I walk in several of the groups in the Manchester area."

He decided to employ his online readings to raise some money for charity: "I got chatting to a friend and I suggested that I might do a reading of A Christmas Carol to raise money for The Ramblers and that'due south where it started."

On why he would like to heighten money for The Ramblers Charity, Mr. Palmer said: " They do very expert work in keeping footpaths open, also in organising group walking sessions which is such a bright thing really. It's then expert for your social life and your mental health, and but really enjoying being outdoors in our beautiful countryside.

He connected: "Manchester is uniquely placed for walking. From where we are here in Salford, at that place's some actually fine walking country from the Pennines, Lancashire, the Lake District, Cheshire and Northward Wales to Yorkshire, so in every direction there's marvellous walking."

The Ramblers Charity raises money to go on and maintain footpaths and rights of style through some of the Great britain's nature walks and countryside.

On Friday the 18th of December 2020 at seven:30pm Mr. Palmer will perform a reading adaptation of the novel, 'A Christmas Carol' past Charles Dickens on Zoom. To purchase a ticket you must first log on to the Just Giving page and and so proceed to make a donation. The suggested minimum donation per ticket is £3.00 and once you make a donation you lot will be emailed a Zoom link to the virtual consequence. All proceeds get to The Ramblers Charity.

On his plans for online reading next yr, Mr. Palmer said he would like to: "Keep going with it considering I really enjoy it and, to my surprise, lots of other people seem to similar it besides."