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New Year Meeting

Saturday 28th January 2012

Film Evening

Our traditional New Year film evening was devoted to Charles Dickens, marking the 2012 bicentenary of his birth.

We started by watching an episode of the largely forgotten series Dickens of London, made by Yorkshire Television and transmitted by ITV in 1976, starring Roy Dotrice in the title role.

We of course chose the episode Nightmare, in which Dickens encountered a certain E. A. Poe, while on a visit to the USA. Poe and Dickens certainly did actually meet, although this account was fictionalised by writer Wolf Mankowitz. Elements of Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar were incorporated into the narrative to great and disturbing effect.

We then turned to an old favourite, again from television in 1976, the BBC Ghost Story at Christmas production of Dickens' The Signalman, starring Denholm Elliott.

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