Peer wants Bafta honour for Dickens

Published on Friday 10 February 2012 00:01

The government should put pressure on Bafta to give Charles Dickens a posthumous honour, a former director of the National Theatre said yesterday.

Labour peer Baroness McIntosh raised the issue in the Lords in the week of the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth.

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Arbroath 1320

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:11 PM

#1 moosef The mans deed Apparently nobody has told the Labour peer Baroness McIntosh.

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scarlett1

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 09:43 PM

Brilliant man.

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Tightfisted

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 05:11 PM

Oh COME ON................I like Dickens writings.........but.even for a clown from the House of Lords, this is completely DAFT !!!

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moosef

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM

The mans deed

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