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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

Evening Standard

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,…

The Conversation

Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol review: Tennessee-based Dickens retelling is heavy on the cheese

Classic Christmas tale is given the Parton treatment, in a saccharine musical with flashes of fun

The Independent UK

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Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol review: carried with glee and gusto

Dolly’s new songs are good and sometimes excellent in this imperfect tryout

Evening Standard

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

The Independent UK

Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed returns as Mr Swallow – and he’s not just for Christmas

Once an under-the-radar live comedy jewel, Mohammed’s alter-ego impresario is hogging the spotlight in two new stage shows. Is the character destined for TV?

The Guardian - UK

Stick a fork in it: 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

The Independent UK

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Fanny and Alexander review – Ingmar Bergman’s dark fusion of Shakespeare and Dickens

In a three-hour, 40th anniversary rerelease, this Swedish family saga unfolds with emotional power, wonder and brilliant acting

The Guardian - UK

A Sherlock Carol review – the detective takes on Dickens in a fresh festive mashup

There’s only one sleuth in Victorian London who can get to the bottom of the suspicious death of Ebenezer Scrooge, in this winning crossover mystery

The Guardian - UK

Armando Iannucci: ‘I have ADHD, which explains why I can only work to deadlines’

The satirist on who makes him laugh, Tory attacks on the BBC, and the physics behind his sci-fi sitcom

The Guardian - UK

‘Completely chancy’: the first BBC radio broadcast outside London, 100 years ago

Percy Edgar’s story ‘shows just how important local broadcasting was in the early years of the BBC’, says grandson David, a playwright

The Guardian - UK

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver review – Dickens updated

This powerful reimagining of David Copperfield follows one boy’s struggle to survive amid America’s opioid crisis

The Guardian - UK

A Christmas Carol review – Adrian Edmondson stars in a biting tale for our times

David Edgar’s sharp script feels close to home in this exuberant, illusion-filled version of Dickens’ seasonal but socially conscious story

The Guardian - UK

Organisation which records thoughts of British public receives blue plaque

Mass Observation project was started to capture the public’s real opinion as opposed to the perception of it as presented in newspapers.

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

Hypocrisy is beneath them – political figures in the Trump era don't bother concealing their misdeeds

There seems to be no sense of shame or its cousin, guilt, in our time.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Clinging to old classics can go hand in hand with banning books

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Middlemarch is about everything, for every person, at every age’

The novelist on taking lessons from Doris Lessing, being inspired by John Steinbeck and why she can no longer read JD Salinger

The Guardian - UK

The Last Chairlift by John Irving review – an outlandish family epic

Unconventional characters, uncertain paternity issues: Irving’s 15th novel retreads familiar ground, but is overlong and poorly edited

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Evening Standard

Cutting school trips would have been disastrous for kids like me

What I remember most vividly from school are not the lessons in the classroom — reading Dickens, studying trigonometry, internalising French grammar. What I remember from Thomas Tallis in Kidbrooke are the school trips, after school clubs, preschool activities in the cafeteria where I chatted amiably with all the other…

Newsroom.co.nz

Book of the Week: Kate, Kate

In praise of Kate De Goldi's latest novel.

Evening Standard

Fran Lebowitz at Theatre Royal Drury Lane review: Excoriating opinions and witty retorts

While not a stand-up, the wordsmith has the natural cadences of a classic acerbic New York comic

The Guardian - UK

Bleak Expectations review – Radio 4’s Dickens parody bursts on to the stage

This fast-paced comedy mashup of the great Victorian novelist sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness

The Guardian - UK

Dodger: the Oliver Twist prequel that’s scary, starry and totally irresistible TV

This Dickens spin-off claps along like The Goonies and is so ace it’s been promoted from CBBC to BBC One. No wonder Christopher Eccleston and Julian Barratt were lining up to star

The Guardian - UK

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a deeply satisfying debut

This spirited Trinidadian love story about a gravedigger and a medium has echoes of Dickens

The Guardian - UK

Lost Dog: A Tale of Two Cities review – the best of times

Ben Duke directs a triumphant theatre-dance interpretation of the Dickens classic that offsets complexity with out-loud laughs

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