Synopsis
Taking an excerpt from Nicholas Nickleby, novelist AL Kennedy explores Charles Dickens's - and her own - literary response to the themes of poverty, misery and death.
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, his ghostly visitations and festive redemption. Read by Sean Baker.

The Read | S3E2: A Christmas Carol
Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?