From Dickens to Sir Ben Okri & Daniel West: Reimagining A Tale of Two Cities

Booker Prize winning author Ben Okri joins screenwriter Daniel West to discuss how fiction travels across time—from Charles Dickens and his 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities to Okri’s imaginative novels. How do stories carry emotions, struggles and dreams across centuries, can literature remain powerful when reimagined for television, and have we, as the human race, learnt anything in the last 200 years or so?

A cash bar will be available at this venue.

Books available
Signed copies of Madam Sosostris by Ben Okri
Signed copies of Famished Road by Ben Okri
Signed copies of African Stories by Ben Okri
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Signed copies of Rivals in the Storm by Damian Collins

The Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words 2026 is headline sponsored by Landsec & MYO

Accessibility:
This venue is fully wheelchair accessible. 
This venue is equipped with a hearing induction loop system.
Please let us know if you have any other accessibility or dietary concerns.

About Fleet Street Quarter:
Fleet Street Quarter is a Business Improvement District championing one of London’s most iconic areas. Spanning Fleet Street and its surrounding destinations - including Chancery Lane, Holborn, Ludgate Hill and New Street Square - the Quarter is collaboratively being shaped into a vibrant place to live, work and explore. This is an area alive with innovation, vision and a rich cultural history — a place where stories have always been born.

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