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World Service,53 mins

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

World Book Club

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February 2012 marks the bicentenary of Victorian author Charles Dickens. In this special edition of World Book Club, biographer Claire Tomalin talks to Harriett Gilbert about Dickens novel Great Expectations live from the BBC Radio Theatre, with actor Simon Callow. (Image: Charles Dickens. Credit: Getty Images) For further details of the British Council’s Global Celebration of Charles Dickens visit: www.britishcouncil.org/dickens2012

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