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‘I got to have an affair with Kylie!’ Stars share their best Doctor Who moments – part one

As the sci-fi smash turns 60, its stars and creators reminisce about their top memories with the Time Lord – from love onboard the Titanic to K9 doing the crossword

The Guardian - UK

The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly review – great speculations

A new biography suggests everything we know about Dickens is wrong

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in Chicago Nov. 16-22: The Mix

“Boop! The Betty Boop Musical,” the City’s official tree lighting ceremony, and the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival area among the cool things to check out in the week ahead.

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Archaeologists uncover colourful walls and fireplaces of London workhouse

Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort

The Guardian - UK

Area stages serving up plenty of holiday cheer — and more — this season

‘Christmas Carol,’ ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ just some of the theater productions to enjoy in the months ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Success stories’: Historic England adds several sites to risk register but removes 203

Hotel that inspired Charles Dickens added to Heritage at Risk Register alongside Gunpowder Plot house

The Guardian - UK

Iconic hotel which hosted the Beatles and inspired Dickens’ first novel faces risk of being lost forever

Holmfirth Conservation Area, which starred in popular TV comedy series Last Of The Summer Wine, has been named

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Hotel which hosted British stars and inspired Dickens’ first novel named at risk

Holmfirth Conservation Area, which starred in popular TV comedy series Last Of The Summer Wine, has been named among the saved sites.

The Independent UK

Researcher uncovers a new body of work believed to be by Louisa May Alcott

Academic says the seven short stories, five poems and one non-fiction work could be written by the Little Women author under the name EH Gould

The Guardian - UK

The Artful Dodger: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the spin-off sequel series

The Artful Dodger on Hulu and Disney Plus sees Thomas Brodie-Sangster play Charles Dickens' iconic young thief as an adult with a double life.

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A Christmas Carol: this safe bet should still startle us – past, present or future

There may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise

The Guardian - UK

Bologna seals off ‘leaning tower’ over fears it is tilting too far

Italian city’s mayor says square around 12th-century structure will shut for ‘a few years’ for repairs

The Guardian - UK

Hunt on for book containing Wilkie Collins’s criticism of friend Dickens

Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890

The Guardian - UK

Triggered Literature by John Sutherland review – a cautious approach

The academic treads a little too carefully in his wry but passionless history of books deemed harmful to a reader’s state of mind

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Great Expectations: new theatrical adaptation sets Dickens novel in partition-era Bengal

We set eyes on Pip, the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel Great Expectations, for the first time in the churchyard where his parents and brothers are buried. The vision of the boy in front of the ruins of his family is one of rude survivalism. It’s a trait that…

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A meat processer killed a 16-year-old. Yet US lawmakers want more child labor

Adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of corporate profits – so child labor is a way to increase and undercut the labor pool

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Slavery, illusion and dead white men: Zadie Smith's The Fraud explodes the historical novel

Victorian England loved a juicy scandal and Zadie Smith situates The Fraud in one of the mid-19th century’s most toothsome cause célèbres: the Tichborne case.

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In Meeting With Elon Musk, Netanyahu Calls For End To Antisemitic Bot ‘armies’

The first leg of Israeli Prime Minister’s trip to the United States, where he will address the U.N. General Assembly]

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The Guardian - AU

Stunning pop, Theater Camp and new Zadie Smith: Australia’s best things to watch, read and do this weekend

New films, shows, books and a seasonal recipe to spend your time with, selected by the culture and lifestyle desks

The Guardian - UK

Great Expectations review – Bengal in 1905 is tailor-made for Dickens

Tanika Gupta brings authority and nuance to her adaptation, exploring class, colonialism, partition and invasion – and finding unexpected resonance

Evening Standard

Keith Allen turns ‘self-absorbed hipster’ to play Scrooge at Christmas

The actor will play the part in the stage production at Alexandra Palace this winter

The Guardian - UK

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – a trial and no errors

Inspired by an extraordinary court case, and featuring a real-life Victorian novelist, Smith’s funny, almost flawless new novel examines identity, the notion of truth and 19th-century England and Jamaica in flux

Evening Standard

Items from Charles Dickens’ childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Charles Dickens’ fans will be able to see relics from his harsh childhood in an exhibition marking 200 years since he was put to work aged 11.

The Guardian - UK

‘Overrun with rats’: Charles Dickens Museum illuminates author’s factory stint

Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debt

The Independent UK

Items from Charles Dickens’s childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823

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