Dickens excels in the bleak midwinter

Lush BBC production looks like it was filmed in a giant snow globe

Dickensian on BBC One: an imaginary London thoroughfare

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Deepest midwinter is surely Dickens’s time. His stories have been staged, filmed and musicalised. Many were originally published in serial form and returned repeatedly to that form in the television age. But no one has ever tried before to ...