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My TV Christmas cracker: Great Expectations.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
Think of it as a late Christmas present: a new adaptation of Great Expectations running from the 27th over three nights. For me there is nothing in the festive schedules I am looking forward to more. It's aimed at kicking off next year's Dickens bicentenary. With a source text the story of Pip, the blacksmith's boy and his mysterious legacy -- that is probably the greatest novel written in English, the BBC is kicking off its 2012 Dickens bicentenary celebrations in some style.
It's not a very festive thought, but I'm most looking forward to the promised austerity, a very unChristmassy virtue of Sarah Phelps's adaptation of the book. I've …
