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Expectations are Great for Peaky Blinders-style take on Dickens classic

Olivia Colman stars as Miss Havisham in the new TV adaptation by Steven Knight - and her famous character is shown as an opium addict

Daily Mirror

Great Expectations with Olivia Colman: next episode, release date, cast, who's who, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the new Dickens adaptation

Great Expectations on BBC1 and FX on Hulu sees Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Fionn Whitehead playing Pip in a new adaptation by the Peaky Blinders writer.

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‘An o-o-old song’: Billy Waters, the African American musician who captivated 1820s London

As a disabled war veteran, Waters’ busking drew crowds and was portrayed in books, plays and paintings. But he died in wretched poverty and only 200 years on is his legacy being recognised

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Great Expectations: new BBC drama starring Olivia Colman gets release date

The six-part series has been created by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

Evening Standard

TV Tinsel: Candid and determined, British actress Anna Maxwell Martin is the real deal

Actress Anna Maxwell Martin obliterates the stereotype of the ever-so-proper British matron sipping tea from a porcelain cup. Leaning back in her straight-backed chair and plopping her arm on the table in front of her, Martin admits that one of her failings is her penchant for telling the unvarnished truth.…

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Lost Edinburgh store John Menzies that was magnet for folk 'on the chore'

Menzies has evolved to stay afloat for 188 years, starting as a small Edinburgh stationer before taking to the skies and leading the world of aviation logistics.

Edinburgh Live

Newcastle's historic Nelson Street - pubs, shoemakers and Charles Dickens

Nelson Street was once home to a dispensary, Primitive Methodist chapel, and a Victorian music hall where, in 1861, Charles Dickens gave readings of his works

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A moment that changed me: I was a personal trainer – then my teenage cousin pushed me to go to university

The tutor on my exercise science course pointed me towards literature, and I began to read voraciously. It was the start of a love affair that led to my first novel

The Guardian - UK

Dickens exhibition to look at role of London fog in life and writings

Museum show will seek to illustrate extent and impact of fog then and draw parallels with air pollution now

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Unexpected Twist review – Oliver gets a phone in beatboxing version of Dickens’s classic

Michael Rosen’s update of Oliver Twist gets the musical treatment in this high-energy show about a schoolgirl ensnared by a street gang

The Guardian - UK

BBC Great Expectations full length trailer featuring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham released

Olivia Colman stars as Miss Havisham in the BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic penned by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight

Wales Online

Grayson Perry’s Full English shows why England’s regions are crucial to its identity

In his Channel 4 series, Full English, artist Grayson Perry travels around England in a white van searching for an answer to the question: “Is there a viable version of England and Englishness that will feed my soul?”

The Conversation

Dear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reason

There were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today, says writer and former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell

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What historic executions in London can tell us about our contemporary appetites for pain and vulnerability

Until the mid-19th century in Britain, watching someone die was considered a form of entertainment. Indeed, this shared experience shaped the landscape of London and bound the city together.

The Conversation

'Nostalgic' classics, or edgy contemporary texts? What books are kids reading in Australian schools – and does it matter?

Debates about what books students should be reading in high school reach a crescendo at the start of each school year.

Daily Mirror

Top jockey hit with fine for celebrating one of his biggest successes

South African stewards took a dim view when jockey Aldo Domeyer celebrated victory before the line on Charles Dickens in the Cape Guineas

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson makes surprise visit to Ukraine after invite from Zelensky

The former Prime Minister has been spotted in the war-torn town of Bucha after receiving a personal invitation to visit the country from President Volodymyr Zelensky

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Radicalism, feminism and family puzzles: why Wilkie Collins is so much more than a mystery writer

Wilkie Collins had the longest writing career of any major mid-19th-century English novelist, writing short stories and novels from 1844 to 1889. Literary criticism, however, has traditionally seen him as only notable for his two mystery novels, The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868).

The Guardian - UK

Chuck D: ‘Bringing rap to the UK was our British invasion’

The founder of Public Enemy answers your questions on the future of hip-hop, police harassment and whether he has ever ridden on an ostrich

ABC News

Barbara Kingsolver returns to Appalachia to tackle opioid crisis, in Dickens-inspired novel Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, returned to her home turf of Appalachia to tackle one of its most urgent issues — with a little help from David Copperfield.

Salon

Christmas trees are older than Christmas

Even Charles Dickens' 1843 seminal novella "A Christmas Carol" didn't yet feature one of these pieces of decor

The Independent UK

Mark Gatiss: ‘Christmas is the perfect time for ghosts’

Glad tidings of comfort and joy? Not if Mark Gatiss has anything to do with it. David Barnett meets the man who haunts Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens audiobook review – a mouthwatering adaptation

Brian Cox, Nicola Coughlan and Daniel Kaluuya are among the all-star cast of this slick and sumptuous take on a classic

Manchester Evening News

The new films and shows out on Now this Christmas weekend

Sky’s subscription service has some great new content dropping in December

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