{"title": "Time Travelling with Dickens. With Elly Griffiths.", "start": "2026-11-11T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Charles Dickens Museum", "address": "Doughty Street 48-49, WC1N 2LX London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://dickensmuseum.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/83533", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/crime"], "description": "A free talk at the Charles Dickens Museum, held in person and on Zoom with a live Q&A. Author Elly Griffiths joins Lucinda Hawksley, Dickens's great great great granddaughter, in conversation. She discusses her new novella The Case of the Christmas Card, in which Charles Dickens travels to 2024 and visits his former home at 48 Doughty Street, along with time travel, crime fiction, her series 'The Frozen People' and writing about Christmas. 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Directed by Philip Breen, the show premiered at Birmingham Rep in 2025 to rave reviews and features music by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Alongside his sidekick Dr Watson and rival Athena Faversham, Holmes races to save French Hens, recover Gold Rings and rescue Mother Goose before the killer strikes again. 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