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The plot Dickens: Why TV needs to get over its Great Expectations obsession

Charles Dickens’ timeless 1861 novel has been adapted for TV and film numerous times – with the BBC’s new miniseries coming just 12 years after it last tackled the story. Commissioners should start showing a little more imagination, argues Louis Chilton

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on literary adaptations: an old wheeze that works

Editorial: Eyes might roll at yet another Dickens miniseries, but plays based on two more recent novels, Hamnet and A Little Life, have hit the jackpot

The Guardian - UK

Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen

The new version of Great Expectations is the BBC’s seventh, while A Christmas Carol is the most adapted English classic ever. What is it about these stories that keeps us wanting more?

The Guardian - UK

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What to watch this weekend: Olivia Colman stars as Miss Havisham in a Great Expectations adaptation with violence, drug abuse and even a little BSDM

TOP CHOICE GREAT EXPECTATIONS BBC1, Sunday, 9pm If the vandalism Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight inflicted on A Christmas Carol (with his dark, gritty, sweary and quite terrible version in 2019) is anything to go by, Dickens purists should probably adjust their expectations of this six-part take on the oft-adapted…

Irish Independent

Great Expectations? The best and worst adaptations of the Dickens classic

Next Sunday night the BBC will launch a major new six-part adaptation of Great Expectations. Adapted by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame, boasting high production values and an impressive cast (Olivia Colman plays jilted crazy Miss Havisham), this is a prestige drama worth getting excited about. Or rather it…

Irish Independent

Great Expectations on BBC One review: even Olivia Colman can’t save this irredeemably awful series

‘I can’t think of an adaptation I’ve hated more’

Evening Standard

A Wild & True Relation by Kim Sherwood review – smugglers and lovers

A brooding hero, a kidnapped heroine and lusty couplings in a swashbuckling yarn that plays knowingly with the romantic genre

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Great Expectations: the best (and worst) adaptations ahead of the BBC’s latest take on the Dickens classic

There have been a whopping 28 stage, film and TV remakes of the classic novel since 1917

Evening Standard

Queen Camilla appears to wade into Roald Dahl censorship row with dig at 'woke' rewriting

Camilla appeared to wade into a 'censorship' row over changes made to classic author Roald Dahl's books and urged authors to resist curbs on their freedom of expression

Daily Mirror

OPINION - Nuclear hints and nasty threats aside, Putin’s fate still depends on China

It was a tale of two cities and two speeches — Joe Biden in Warsaw, Vladimir Putin in Moscow. To borrow Dickens’ famous opening line, the worst of times was represented by the Russian leader’s wall-to- wall paranoia. The best, perhaps, was the American’s exhortations to back democracy and the…

Evening Standard

Taking it to the streets: UK faces biggest wave of strikes in decades

Why are they taking it to the streets in Paris and London? This 21st century tale of two cities is not about revolution like in the Dickens classic, but about saving Europe's beloved welfare state. In France, unions say millions turned out on Tuesday for round two of the biggest…

France 24

Boris Johnson makes surprise visit to Ukraine as political issues mount at home

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Bucha and Borodyanka to the north of Kyiv on Sunday morning, the scenes of some of the worst atrocities committed by Russian forces during the war

Daily Mirror

Number of Russians killed in Ukraine hit an enormous 188,000, says US intelligence

US intelligence reportedly claims an estimated 188,000 Russians have been killed or injured in Ukraine on top of heavy tank losses, with Vladimir Putin's war having started nearly a year ago

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson compares Putin to ‘the fat boy in Dickens’

‘He wants to make our flesh creep,’ says Boris Johnson in Davos

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Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson compares Vladimir Putin to 'the fat boy in Dickens' in bizarre speech

The former prime minister also urged his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos to "stop worrying about Kremlinology" insisting Russia will "never" use nuclear weapons

Manchester Evening News

Boris Johnson compares Vladimir Putin to the 'fat boy in Dickens' and says he won't use nuclear weapons

Boris Johnson was speaking about the Russian president

The Independent UK

Putin ‘wants to make our flesh creep’ but will not use nuclear weapons – Johnson - OLD

The ex-PM compared the Russian president to ‘the fat boy in Dickens’ during an event on Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The Telegraph

Rishi Sunak latest news: PM says people understand why taxes cannot be cut as they're not 'idiots'

Rishi Sunak said people understand why he cannot cut taxes at the moment because they are not "idiots".

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The Independent UK

Nine million spent Christmas in ‘Dickensian’ housing conditions, survey finds

Millions of adults with serious health conditions are spending Christmas in cold damp homes, according to research

The Independent UK

Staying currant: Have Gen Z killed off the Christmas pudding?

Top chefs blame ‘whatever we want, whenever we want it’ culture for undermining a centuries’ old festive tradition, writes Hannah Twiggs

Irish Independent

Top TV picks for the festive couch potato – the critic’s choice

Christmas television is a bit of a busman’s holiday for TV critics. For a change, we get to enjoy the view without any of the stress. No making notes, no keeping an eye on the deadline clock.

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Disabled people can't afford Christmas as UK returns to Dickensian squalor'

With half of us in debt and a third skipping meals, disabled people are now back to the days of Dickens and Mr Scrooge, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

Evening Standard

A Christmas Carol at Middle Temple Hall review: resistance is useless

The oak-paneled, stained glass, 14th century Middle Temple Hall feels Dickens-ier than Dickens

Evening Standard

Christmas Carole on Sky review: this contemporary retread lacks spirit

The latest adaptation of Dickens’ acclaimed novel fails to capture the magic of Scrooge’s redemption story

The Conversation

Five historical hot cocktails that are perfect for cold weather

It is cold outside and there’s nothing quite like a hot drink to warm the cockles. In the history of British mixed concoctions, there are arguably more hot drinks than cold for one simple reason: central heating was not ubiquitous in the UK until the late 20th century. Before that,…

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