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TV shows to watch this Christmas - from Call the Midwife to Great Festive Bake Off

Plenty to watch for this year's Christmas telly schedule on BBC, ITV and Channel 5 to Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sky Max

Nottingham Post

All the TV shows to watch this Christmas from Doc Martin to The Santa Clauses

Christmas is the perfect time to grab a hot chocolate and catch up on some television. Here are the shows to look our for this winter

Daily Mirror

Dickens & Prince by Nick Hornby review – a tale of two greats

Hornby draws parallels between the Victorian novelist and the musician in this heartfelt homage to these brilliant, driven individuals

The Guardian - UK

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Scrooge: A Christmas Carol review – Netflix’s junky musical is a lump of coal

The voices of Olivia Colman, Luke Evans and Jessie Buckley can’t enliven an ugly, joyless retread of the Dickens classic

The Guardian - US

Christmas theatre 2022: the best shows to book in London this festive period

With Christmas around the corner, what better than to celebrate with a festive show. We round up the best that London has to offer

Evening Standard

Lynch: Tiger Woods’ $15 million bonus was a bargain — the PGA Tour owes him so much more

Fifteen million doesn’t even begin to cover it.

USA Today Sports Media Group

184 years ago, an American poet created a Thanksgiving myth we still believe today

Have you ever wondered why Thanksgiving revolves around turkey and not ham, chicken, venison, beef, or corn? A little-known poet may hold the key.

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A shining result: Meet the campaigners who saved London’s historic gas lamps

London’s last remaining gas lamps are a part of our city’s fabric — and were under threat until a few days ago. Tom Ellen meets the group who fought to save these beacons of history

Evening Standard

Things to Do in Chicago Nov. 24-30: The Mix

“Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol,” Chicago’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the return of “The Sound of Music Sing-a-Long” are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Five Victorian-era diseases making a comeback in UK - all the symptoms to look for

Diseases that would have been familiar to author Charles Dickens and that killed thousands of people in Victorian Britain have been found to be on the rise again in modern Britain

Daily Mirror

Magpie Murders' "disgusting" anagram

Author Anthony Horowitz tells Salon about avoiding a bad word, a Sherlock Holmes inspiration and what comes next

Salon

A Christmas Carol review – David Wenham is a superb Scrooge for the ages

Comedy Theatre, MelbourneThis adaptation from London’s Old Vic is a night of pure theatrical warmth, with a performance of incredible clarity and generosity at its centre

The Guardian - AU

Behind the scenes of Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell's chaotic 'Spirited' tap dance

The most over-the-top sequence of "Spirited" wasn't supposed to happen. It was just a throwaway joke in the initial script.

Los Angeles Times

The Week Ahead: Writing the story of the important holiday spending season for investors

As he was starting his literary career, Charles Dickens was a journalist. Alas, he was not a business reporter — that would have been too appropriate for the son of a debtors’ prison inmate.

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Holiday things to do in Chicago: Theater

Everything from the works of Charles Dickens, Irving Berlin and Frank Capra to a new tale of Santa’s son and holiday-themed improv are among the area offerings this season.

Evening Standard

Spirited: How to watch Ryan Reynolds’ and Will Ferrell’s new Christmas film

The all-singing, all-dancing festive film is one of this year’s must-watch Christmas flicks.

Reason

From My Commonplace Book, No. 3

[Random clippings from my collection - see No. 1 for a brief explanation/No. 2] This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined…

The Conversation

Why is turkey the main dish on Thanksgiving?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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Los Angeles Times

How a clever new spin on 'A Christmas Carol' takes on a Twitter Scrooge

Like many onscreen Scrooges before him, Ryan Reynolds' character in "Spirited" is told that he will face his past, present and future. But he surprises even the spirit haunting him upon raising his hand and asking: "Like 'A Christmas Carol'? The Dickens story? The Bill Murray movie with Bobcat Goldthwait?"

The Guardian - UK

‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

Evening Standard

Luke Evans is Scrooge in first look at Netflix’s take on A Christmas Carol

Netflix has turned the classic Charles Dickens novel into an animated musical boasting a stellar cast

Daily Mirror

Historic England adds 175 sites at risk of being lost forever - see the full list

Historic England has added 175 places to its Heritage at Risk Register of buildings under threat as a result of decay, neglect or inappropriate development

The Independent UK

King Arthur hall and institute led by Dickens named among at-risk historic sites

Historic England has added 175 places to its Heritage at Risk Register of buildings under threat.

Daily Record

One-man performance of A Christmas Carol hopes to bring slice of Dickens storytelling magic to Ayrshire

Ken O'Hara's MAD Productions' retelling of the Christmas classic will visit a variety of venues across the region.

Evening Standard

Simpson’s Tavern: Campaign to save historic restaurant, which once fed Dickens

FANS of a good business lunch are up in arms after Simpson’s Tavern, where Charles Dickens is said to have been a patron, has closed its doors. The venue, which opened in 1757 and calls itself the oldest chophouse in London, shut last month and may not reopen.

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