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A "bold" new version of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations will be screened on ����ý One at Christmas.

Sarah Phelps, who adapted Oliver Twist for the channel in 2007, will write the three-part series.

Previous ����ý versions of Dickens' novel - one of the author's best-known works - were broadcast in 1959, 1967, 1981 and 1999.

The most recent starred Ioan Gruffudd as Pip and Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham.

A ����ý spokeswoman said the new version would "give us the heart and guts of Dickens at his very best".

It is one of five new dramas newly appointed ����ý One controller Danny Cohen has commissioned for 2011.

Jennifer Worth's best-selling memoir Call the Midwife is being adapted by Heidi Thomas, the writer of Cranford and the ����ý's recent Upstairs, Downstairs remake.

Bound is a six-episode series about a group of women with husbands in prison, while Morton follows the exploits of a female spy.

Four-part drama One Night will tell the story of a different character each week.

Cohen said he hoped the commissions would "begin to express the range and creative ambition" of the channel's drama output.

The former head of digital channel ����ý Three was named ����ý One controller in October.

Next year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth.