INTERVIEW: Colin Firth on working on the film Christmas Carol at the Cannes Film Festival 2009: Nowhere Boy Party at Cannes . (Footage by WireImage Video/GettyImages)

The BBC has ordered a new series of Charles Dickens adaptations and have commissioned acclaimed Brit writer Stephen Knight of ‘Allied’ and ‘Woman Walks Ahead.’

London, 22nd November 2005

1. Introduction of Patrick Stewart SOUN
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"Thanks very much, Julian. For a moment I thought I was competing with Christmas carols but I think that perhaps they've been turned...