One of the greatest authors of all time, champion of the poor and underprivileged, without whom we would never have been blessed with The Muppet Christmas Carol. But on the flip-side Charles Dickens’ humiliation of his wife would have made a modern celebrity’s PR team blush and, perhaps even worse, he was an amateur magician... With the well-informed help of Dickens devotee Dr. Emily Middleton, author and historian Katie Kennedy will stick her hand down the back of Dickens’s settee and drag up the dirt so that she can find an answer to the question - is Charles Dickens a crush or a burn?