Andy: Dickens news now! And last Tuesday was the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, who tragically wasn't able to join in the celebrations on the grounds that he was completely and utterly dead. He was the man after whom, as we revealed in Bugle 65, the rapper Chuck D took both his name and lyrical inspiration. In fact, if you-

Andy: That is something we've said, yeah.

Andy: Yeah, well in fact I revealed at the time, John, that when Chuck D applied for the job as vocalist for Public Enemy, he wrote on his application that the Victorian novelist was an 'inspiration, and someone who's work and beard I hope to emulate in the medium of rap.' And included with his application a six-hour hip hop version of Dickens' unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. And in fact, if you play the Public Enemy hit 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show,' the title track of their first album, backwards at half speed, it is the first couple pages of Dickens' hit novel Dombey and Son. And track 3 on the same album, 'Miuzi Weighs a Ton' is basically a five-star review of Our Mutual Friend. Dickens of course has left a great legacy for this country, and it's reached its apotheosis in Dickens World, a Dickens theme park-

Andy: -in Chatham in North Kent. Now, I dunno if you've ever been to Chatham, John.

Andy: Chatham, it's an old dockyard town, but it's in a fairly depressed area of Kent and the Medway Towns, and on TripAdvisor Dickens World was ranked fourth out of five attractions in Chatham. Which is a bit like being the fourth most useful finger on Lord Nelson's right arm. In the latter stages of his career. Or, the second-best movie that John Oliver has ever starred in.