The Penny Readings 2012 (UK)

Taking place on 9 December in the magnificent surroundings of the Small Concert Room, St. George's Hall, the all-singing, all-dancing festive bash returns for a ninth year, welcoming Liverpool born actor Cathy Tyson, award-winning local author Frank Cottrell Boyce and the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis De Bernieres as this year's special star readers. The Penny Readings have become a staple of the festive season in Liverpool, with a spectacular show of reading, music and entertainment, all for the price of a penny. This follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens - a man who knew a lot about festivity - who toured across the North West giving public readings for the same price back in the 1840s, filling the venues he visited