In this podcast Professor Jon Mee is joined by three of his MA students, Harriet Kilikita, Rebecca Lea and Emma Seddon, to discuss the link between Dickens and Christmas. They discuss A Christmas Carol, some of the enduring phrases borne from this work and the most famous Christmas character, Scrooge. They also discuss some of his lesser-known short stories

I think, somehow, A Christmas Carol has this mythic status. Myself, my favourite isn’t the Christmas Carol, it’s the second one – The Chimes. Dickens wrote a Christmas story every year between 1843 and 1848, bar one, and of the five stories, I think The Chimes is the most powerful.

Professor Jon Mee

Professor Jon Mee tells us his favourite Dickens Christmas story is The Chimes. Do you have a favourite Dickens Christmas story?