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Guardian Books podcast: Dickens turns 200

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A birthday special for Boz, as Claire Tomalin talks about her new biography of the great man, we visit the Dickens museum and leading writers pick their favourites of his novels

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In this week's podcast we begin our celebrations of the Dickens bicentenary by asking some leading writers to name their favourite of his novels. Ian Rankin, Colin Thubron, Malorie Blackman, Andrew O'Hagan and Alan Bissett are among those who make their choice.

We also talk to Claire Tomalin about her new biography, and pay a visit to the Dickens Museum, based at the house where he wrote some of his most famous novels.

Find out what else we are doing on Dickens this weekend here.

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Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin (Viking)

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Illustration of Charles Dickens's last public book reading, 1870. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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