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December 22, 2025 - Gerald Charles Dickens, The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Mrs. Claus

In the Victorian era, Charles Dickens was more than a famous author — his public readings of A Christmas Carol turned literature into live spectacle. His great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens, carries that tradition forward with a one-man performance of the holiday classic. Touring internationally since the early 1990s, he joined The Culture Show to talk about literary inheritance, live storytelling, and decades spent bringing Dickens’ ghosts to life onstage. To learn more about Gerald Charles Dickens go here.

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