• Charles Dickens' Christmas

  • Dec 25 2024
  • Length: 47 mins
  • Podcast

Charles Dickens' Christmas

  • Summary

  • Just as Scrooge wanders London's streets on a cold Christmas night, Dan Snow follows the ghosts of Charles Dickens' past to discover the city that inspired his greatest works. With London-born tour guide David Charnick, they slip down hidden alleyways to find the old debtor's prison that the Dickens family once called home; a place that haunted a young Charles for the rest of his life. They find the old counting houses and graveyards that inspired the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge and the locations that appear in A Christmas Carol. With David's masterful guidance and atmospheric readings, this immersive episode takes you to the fireside of a London coaching inn as the sun sets outside on a late December afternoon.


    A warning: this episode contains references to historical suicides.


    Dickens' extracts are read by Robyn Wilson.


    Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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