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‘One must have a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell,’ said Oscar Wilde – but if you have tears (of laughter), prepare to shed them here. John Sutherland, professor, author and critic, joins John Crace, who regularly reduces great literature to size in the Guardian’s Digested Reads and in his Brideshead Revisted book, to take a humorous look at one of our greatest authors, Charles Dickens, on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Both are firm believers that literature should be fun – and here it is.