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Miriam’s Dickensian Christmas review – Margolyes is as punchy and rich as a boozy pudding
The lifelong Dickens fan is an absolute joy to watch when she’s reading from his work – and at one point you’ll wish she was our queen. But this show needed more fury about poverty
Miriam Margolyes does not like Christmas. It’s the expense, the stress, the hypocrisy: “People buying presents for people they don’t like, with money they don’t have.”
The excess is obscene, she says – these days, it’s all about Christmas jumpers and John Lewis adverts. “When it comes to Christmas, I wonder if I am a bit of a Scrooge.”
