‘The Chimes’ by Charles Dickens
Jonathan Jones
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £60 plus 20ppm (from Farnham, Surrey)
- Category:
- Entertainment
- Updated:
- 6th October 2025
- Tagged:
- Christmas | Storytelling | Dramatised Reading | Festive
‘The Chimes’ was Dickens’s second Christmas story, written the year following the publication of ‘A Christmas Carol’. It tells of Toby Veck, a discouraged elderly messenger, who has lost faith in humanity and is drawn to the bell tower of a church on New Year’s Eve, where he finds the spirits of the bells and their goblin attendants.
This is a dramatised reading, much as Dickens himself presented it to his adoring audiences, using different voices and mannerisms to bring the various characters to life, and runs for approximately 1 hour.
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Have been giving talks and performances since I took early retirement in 2010 after a career mainly in IT. I have now delivered over 1,000 talks/performances.
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