Synopsis
Armando Iannucci looks beyond the stature of Dickens as a national institution and instead explores the qualities of his work that make him one of the best British writers.
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Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?

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A railway signalman tells a curious traveller how he is being troubled by a spectre that seems to predict calamity.