The Man Who Invented Christmas

Good to know. I recorded it and it's on my To Do list for this afternoon ?

Gone right off Charkes Dickens now
What a sh*t - literary genius or not.
Watch it and see if you don't agree with me!

Oops sorry - wrong programme-same evening - Sue Perkins on Mrs Dickens- very enlightening.
Apologies OP

Yes MawBe I agree his personal life was far from exemplary, to say the least.
Suspend reality and enjoy the film.

I watched a little but like Mawbe I have gone off him. But we knew ages ago about his poor wife

I’ve just watched a repeat of the BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist with Timothy Spall and (swoon) Tom Hardy. I’d forgotten how good it was.

I’ve recorded it, too.
Of course he was no saint - I wonder how many famous authors were? - but I do admire him for his commercial sense in starting his own, relatively affordable magazines (one of them cost 2d a week) for serialising his own work and that of his friends, e.g. Wilkie Collins.

In an era when books were far too expensive for the vast majority and free public libraries did not exist, he must have provided a great deal of affordable enjoyment for so many people.
IIRC the standard price for one volume was one and a half guineas i.e 30/6d - and many works came in 3 volumes, as demanded by the publishers, in the interests of their own profits.

I recorded it and shall look forward to watching it now.
Thanks.

I have this on DVD, wil probably watch sometime over Christmas.