mr. dickens, mr. dickens. >> thank you. >> you are an admirer of my husband's work. >> he has read every chapter twice. >> i am glad. >> every human create you are is a profound secret to every other. >> until that secret is given to another's perhaps two human creatures may know each other. >> why are you up so early. >> i must go to london. >> why didn't you tell us you were coming. >> a last minute impulse. >> so what will you do with your winningsing nellie. >> i will spend it all at once. >> a fine young woman. i'm anxious for her future. >> if i may be of assistance in any way. >> dow love him? >> he is married. >> it's not stopped him from falling in love with you. >> you cannot keep her a secret. >> yes, i can. >> he cannot. >> this is insanity. >> you have been in every line i have ever read. >> you were part of my existence, in the last hour of my life, you remain part of my character. >> everyone has their secret, and this is ours. >> ray fiennes is here also felicity jones who plays nellie

mr. dickens. he seems to have some undiagnosable mental illness and whenever he sits down -- the sweetest character. whenever he sits down to write a memorial to parliament explaining the tales of his inheritance gone awry he says "the memory of charles the 1st head drifts into his writing and he ends up the fouling up the writing so all he can do is cut up the paper and attach it to the tail of a kite and watch it lift over the hills. where does that come from? the world charles dick seasons in there so it comes from inside him but it's beautiful, it's ha lucetory in simon's phrase and it's the miracle of imagination. >> rose: this may not be the right crowd to ask this question but if you want to demur from the adulation for dickens, what would you most say? robert? >> i'd say that he couldn't describe women as anything else than angels or frumps. i'd say he was a closet racist. i'd say there were times when as his daughter katie said "my father was a very wicked man" and i'd say none of that me

published in 1843, dickens' story helped popularize the phrase "merry christmas." >> merry christmas, mrvented christmas as we know it "the christmas carol" was iconic as soon as it was published. >> liz is a curator of rare books at the new york public library, which holds an extensive collection of works and letters by dickens. >> that's his personal copy of "a christmas carol" plus a couple of other christmas stories, signed charles dickens. 1862. >> charles dickens was a rock star of victorian culture. queen victoria herself was a fan. and dickens toured like a rock star, giving dramatic readings of his stories. the library also has dickens' personal copy of his touring schedule. >> this is during the autumn of 1858. he's all over the country. >> not only all over england, over to ireland, up to scotland. >> 129 appearances in 49 towns. >> you see where he ends up. >> he dashed in after it and in a moment rising with the hills -- >> the actor ray fiennes plays dickens in the new film he directed "the invisible woman." >> and the ship was gone. >> as you started looking at dickens wha

if you look at the lowlife of dickens and shakespeare, there is an enormous meeting point. >> take a character like mrdick. he seems to have some kind of undiagnosable mental illness. whenever he sits down to write a memorial to parliament explaining details of his inheritance gone awry, he says the memory of charles i's head drifts into his writing. where does that come from? the word charles dickens is in there. it is beautiful, hallucinatory. it is a miracle of the imagination. >> if you want to demur from the adulation for dickens, what would you most say? >> he could not describe women. he was a closet racist. there were times -- as his daughter said, my father was a very wicked man. none of that matters at all. the generosity and the warmth of the writing can extinguish all of that. >> simon, what would you say? >> you have to face the fact that there are uninspired passages. [laughter] christopher said in his final essay, it is little hard to know which novel and which character comes from. one great big bale of fabric out of which the novels are cut. he was such an extraordinary and such a gre

mr. grinch. >> yes, it's a person in a christmas tree costume. scaring the dickens school in texas. it was all part of the buildup for the state championship football game against arch rival carthage bulldogs. karthnage won. thanks to my team for letting me have the surprise, as well. golden retrievers moving onto the next story is, fair swimmers but even they need retrieving when they fall through the ice on the false river in december. the massachusetts firefighter who fought their way 50 yards offshore yesterday to save that dog. it took time but everybody did make it out, at which point crosby was warmed up and in the back seat of a nice toasty police car. last we heard, crosby and the firefighters were just fine. >>> well, thanks for watching, everybody. want to wish you a happy holiday. safe travels. safe travels. "around the world" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a an hair row zg rescue airlifts americans out of the violence in south sudan. now a warning from president obama. the united states may get more u.s. troops involved. >> the of

mr. baucus: madam president, last week i had the opportunity to see charles dickens classic "the christmas carol." as you know this is a morality tale that highlights the plight of the poor, the less fortunate, the unemployed. in fact, madam president, when charles dickens back to work on "the christmas carol" actually he was so upset with the plight of youth and children working in the mines in england, he started out to write about that in a novel that evolved into a tale about christmas, a christmas carol. as i watched "the christmas carol" with my wife at ford's theater about a week ago, i was struck about the following line for the spirit of jacob marchly. here -- jacob marley. here's what he said. mankind was my business. the welfare was my business, charity, mercy, benevolence was all my business. the dealings by trade and the drop of water in the comprehensive ocean was my business. end quote. with that line, dickens was advocating for those less fortunate and voicing his support for economic equality. those words are most appropriate today, this time of year. i come to the floor t