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24 days ago

Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog ⊖

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Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducing

Keen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol…

31 days ago

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling audiobook review – an all-star outing ⊕⊕

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Cush Jumbo, Hugh Laurie and Matthew Macfadyen bring extra twinkle to Rowling’s magical tale

It has become tradition for Audible to bring out the big guns in the run-up to Christmas and deliver star-st…

3 months ago

Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France

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From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of Fran…

Neil Kinnock calls for government to scrap two-child cap on benefits

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Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse it

Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, th…

4 months ago

Miriam Margolyes: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? When the media reported my imminent demise’

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The actor on disappointing her mother, the only time she will tell a lie, and a terrible spat with Glenda Jackson

Born in Oxford, Miriam Margolyes, 84, began acting at Cambridge University. In 1994, s…

5 months ago

‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel

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Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence

In the spotless kitche…

Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer

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An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works

As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary…

6 months ago

Think you know a lot about Dickens? Then who’s this Herbert character? | Zoe Williams

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This minor figure from Great Expectations has sown panic at the GCSEs. Be honest: have you even heard of him?

It’s unwise to drill too deeply into the exact questions that come up in a GCSE paper. You…

7 months ago

The King of Kings review – Charles Dickens retelling of the Jesus story does a serviceable job

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The famous author tells his son and their cat the story of Jesus in this mixed-bag family animation, voiced by an impressive cast

This syrupy cartoon account of the life of Jesus (voiced by Oscar Isa…

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