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Bleak House by Charles Dickens audiobook review – Sam Mendes’s all-star adaptation

Ambika Mod, Thandiwe Newton and Mackenzie Crook are among the lineup in this cinematic telling of Dickens’s classic

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Jack and the Beanstalk review – dancing chickens meet the mother of all dames

This uplifting production feels both improvised and polished, with John Elkington’s Dame Daisy camping it up to perfection as Jack’s mother

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If You Get Less Than 15 Questions Right, You Can’t Claim To Have Good Literature Knowledge

Whether you are or always have been a bookworm or stopped reading books at 16 years old, you should know all these big names in this literature trivia. From Dickens to Hemingway, this trivia has it all: your mission is to jog your memory and remember what you already know.…

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‘I couldn’t look away!’ The rapid, runaway rise of ridiculous Christmas romcoms

It’s that season again, when the streamers bring us hot snowmen and heroes who still believe in Santa. Why are they competing to make the most ludicrous movie possible – and why do we keep watching them?

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Rough sleepers living in shadows of London’s Square Mile face abuse ‘just for being homeless’

Rough sleepers have flooded Castle Baynard Street with tents and makeshift kitchens in an image that could ripped straight from a Dickens novel

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OPINION - Chasing Fog by Laura Pashby review: the wonderful weirdness of fog

Sometimes, it really is true — they don’t make them like they used to, even fogs. London was once the home of the pea-souper – but have you noticed one lately? That’s almost certainly a good thing, though. The worst ever hit in December 1952: “an all encompassing smoke-laden yellow…

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Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits review – the nation’s favourite foul mouth

There’s more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly

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‘Only disconnect’ – in Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan depicts Britain’s great unravelling

It is Thursday May 20, 2021, and Campbell Flynn – “tall and sharp at fifty-two […] a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished” – makes his way along Piccadilly to sign copies of…

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Atlanta water woes extend into fourth day as city finally cuts off gushing leak

For at least some residents, Atlanta’s water problems aren't over

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: London Tide; The Comeuppance; Gunter – review

All of London life doesn’t quite materialise in an epic take on Dickens with music by PJ Harvey; a university reunion digs deep at the Almeida; and a 17th-century witch hunt comes alive in an Edinburgh hit

The Guardian - UK

Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan review – state-of-the-nation burlesque

This Dickensian yarn of a celebrity writer heading for a fall combines the bling of an airport bestseller with an insider’s grasp on high culture

The Guardian - UK

Garrick Club judges show that Dickens was correct

Letters: Paul Keleher KC says some lawyers fail to grasp a simple concept, while Petrina Stevens says it seems that some judges don’t understand what discrimination really is. Plus letters from Fiona MacArthur, Dr Elly Hanson and Dee Northover

The Guardian - UK

Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

The Guardian - UK

Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy’s piercingly painful Magdalene Laundries drama

Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history

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Evening Standard

Best graphic novels that aren’t about superheroes that everyone should read

From the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize to heartbreaking stories of mystery and adventure

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The week in TV: True Detective: Night Country; Big Boys; The Artful Dodger; Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We? – review

Jodie Foster leads a darkly atmospheric reboot; Jack Rooke’s university comedy continues to charm. Plus, a raucous return for Dickens’s pickpocket; and are we all doomed?

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The Artful Dodger on Disney+ review: David Thewlis is the trump card in this rampantly fun take on Dickens

The gags are crass, the names are silly and it's all a lot of fun

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Chimes; Uncanny Christmas Special; The Today Podcast – review

Toby Jones stars in a pitch-perfect Dickens adaptation; it’s all round to Daisy May Cooper’s haunted house; and Esther Rantzen’s frank revelations are an inspiration

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My week of Christmas jobs: ‘There is bad news. Dancer has diarrhoea’

Are festive jobs a cut above the rest? And which is best: Santa, reindeer wrangler, elf, sprout farmer, snowman’s helper or rollercoaster tester?

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From The Three Musketeers to Cher: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Dumas’s trio bring more mustachioed swashbucklery to cinemas, and the pop matriarch goes festive with an album chock-full of Christmas cheer

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How to watch Bad Education: A Christmas Carol online and from anywhere

The school set sitcom goes festive with a Dickens inspired episode. Here's how you can watch Bad Education: A Christmas Carol online from wherever you are.

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Christmas is a time for traditions. If yours is a nativity pizza, who am I to judge?

We may want tradition to be mystical and ancient but in truth it’s exactly what we say it is – be that Baileys, beef rendang or turkey and all the trimmings

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Oliver! review – tunes, glorious tunes and a thrillingly vivid production

James Brining’s exemplary staging solves every problem – the antisemitism, the coercive romance – that Lionel Bart’s joyous, beloved but difficult musical presents

The Guardian - UK

Dodger review – this hilarious Dickens prequel is an utter treat

Nicola Coughlan! Lennie Rush! Paul Whitehouse! This festive special of the Christopher Eccleston-fronted show is a supremely funny, star-packed delight

Evening Standard

The best Christmas shows to book: from Dickens and Elf to Gwyneth Paltrow on the slopes (yes, really)

Fancy a festive night out at the theatre? Of course you do

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