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Jonathan Morris’ adaptation of The Chimes shines a spotlight on a less well known Christmas work by Charles Dickens.

The short story is very placed in 1844 because there’s aspects of the story which are inspired by things that Dickens had been commenting on in the press earlier in the year and things that were happening in the news. It has stuff which is topical [to then], but soup kitchens are food banks, and I think mental health issues and the idea that people are socially destined to become criminals and all those sorts of ideas are as relevant now as they were then. They might have become less relevant through a gap briefly in the meantime, but they’ve certainly come back with a vengeance.

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