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‘London. Michaelmas Term lately over and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall…’
This week, Sally has been reading and teaching Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (1852). Follow her on a journey through his London, in the company of its climate, characters, and the bewildering legal bureaucracy not very far from our own….
Music used throughout includes ‘Tuesday’ and ‘Thursday’ by Paul Sebastian.
This episode was edited and produced by James Bowen.
Special thanks to Andrew Smith, Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.
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