British Council celebrates Dickens’ 200th birthday in Pakistan

Islamabad: Celebrations for Dickens’ 200^th birthday celebrated across the globe including Pakistan on February 7. The British Council had staged a 24 hour global read-a-thon with 24 countries reading 24 of Dickens’ texts in 24 hours.

All 24 readings have all been pre-recorded and organised by the British Council global network and the readings and now available to watch via @britishcouncil Twitter where they uploaded on the hour from 7am to 7am between the 7th and the 8th February 2012.

The footage hosted on YouTube via unlisted links which only accessible via the British Council Twitter site.