Christmas would not be Christmas without ‘A Christmas Carol’ or without Dickens. In December 2012 the British Council held a celebration of one of the greatest writers in the English language at the close of the bicentenary year commemorating two hundred years since Charles Dickens’s birth.

Introduction

Dickens’s childhood

’A Christmas Carol’

In conversation with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley - part 1

In conversation with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley - part 2

In conversation with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley - part 3