200th Birthday of Charles Dickens

The Takeaway

A day of Great Expectations for fans of Charles Dickens. Today’s marks the 200th birthday of the writer who gave us “A Tale of Two Cities,” “A Christmas Carol,” “David Copperfield,” among many others. Joining us now from the BBC’s studio’s in Cambridge England is Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm  a Dickens fan, a lecturer in Victorian literature at Trinity Hall of Cambridge University.

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