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Welcome to this Intelligent Squared event about Charles Dickens and Christmas Carol.

And with me Simon Callow, great de Kenzian, of course one of the country's best love

stage and screen actors.

You'll all know him from lots of things.

He is the funeral in four weddings and a funeral spoiler alert.

And Simon, of course, has also written books about figures, including Oscar Wilde,

Awesome Wells and Dickens, his biography of Dickens, his Charles Dickens and the great theatre

of the world.

And he's also written and starred in one man's shows, including our Christmas Carol,

which I think Simon, you've probably got imprinted on your cerebellum, like nobody else

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