Charles Dickens’ London with Simon Callow

Melbourne Writers Festival 2012 Keynote speaker Simon Callow has released, in the bicentenary year of Charles Dickens’ birth, a biography that discusses the importance of theatre to the life and work of the great storyteller: Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World (HarperCollins). In this short clip for the Guardian, Callow—who you will surely recognise from film and TV—gives us an introduction to Dickens’ London:

Tickets for Callow’s Opening Keynote Address are on sale now.

You might also like this gallery from The Telegraph: Dickens’ London in pictures.