A Christmas Carol (TRIH ep 132)
1843 · Resource
In this festive on-location episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook walk the streets of the City of London discussing Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. They visit likely sites for Scrooge’s counting house, tavern and home around Cornhill, Bengal Court, White Lion Court, St Michael’s Cornhill, St Peter upon Cornhill and Leadenhall Market, using Dickens’s text to link place and passage. The hosts explore Dickens’s creative energy, his 1842 American trip, his interest in poverty and death,...
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