Hello and welcome to a special Legacy Encore episode.

While we take a short break over the Christmas period, we're dipping back into the archive

to revisit some of our favourite episodes.

And we can't start anywhere better than with Charles Dickens and Christmas Cowell.

We'll let the episode speak for itself.

But before we do, here's a quick reminder that the full back catalogue is always there for you to explore.

Hello and welcome to the third episode of our series on Charles Dickens.

We left you in the last episode with Dickens, The Novelist, in search of a novel.

He's a star, both in Britain and America, but he's short of money.

He needs to write a bestseller.

And Dickens has a burning social conscience too.

All around him in London, he can see the effects of extreme poverty.

And he's been there himself.

It's the life he experienced as a child, and he wants to bring about change.

Christmas is coming, and Dickens thinks he's found the answer.

From Wondery and Gollhanger, I'm Peter Frank O'Hepern.

I'm Afwa Hirsch.

And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived, and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve.

This is Charles Dickens, episode three.

A very Dickens Christmas. A Merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you!

cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.

There, said Scrooge.

...