Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Dominic Gerrard

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Actor Dominic Gerrard hosts an exciting new series that explores the Life and Times of Charles Dickens: his extraordinary novels, who he was as a person, his career as a performer, and his activism. Guests include: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Alice Loxton, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lucinda Hawksley, John Mullan, Pen Vogler, Andrew Davies, Rosie Holt, Bernard Cornwell .... and many more academics, writers, actors, directors and descendants of the great man himself! Along side...

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Episodes (96)

Charles and Catherine: with Helena Kelly

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THE SIGNAL-MAN 📚: with John Bowen

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THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES 📚: with Dr. Emily Bell

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The Shorthand Mysteries: with Dr. Claire Wood & Prof. Hugo Bowles

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Copperfield, Chuzzlewit ... Partridge? : with Armando Iannucci

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Dickens, Bergson & Time Travel: with Céleste Callen

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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD 📚: with Pete Orford

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Dickens' Handwriting: with Emma Bache

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Paul Dombey's Wallpaper: with J.M. Varese

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The Mega Dickens Readalong: with Katie Lumsden

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Bleak Health: with Nicholas Cambridge

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Biddy: with Laurie Ogden

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OLIVER TWIST 📚: with Emily Bell

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Dickens Re-imagined: with Steven Knight

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." A Tale of Two Cities (...

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Great Adaptations: with Harry Lloyd

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UPROAR! with Alice Loxton

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THE BATTLE OF LIFE 📚: with Katie Lumsden

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Pip's Christmas Dinner: Read by Dominic Gerrard

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THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON 📚(Then Wrote a Carol & Rang A New Year In!) with...

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL & Other Christmas Books 📚: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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Rose Theatre A Christmas Carol: with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

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HARD TIMES 📚: with Gage McWeeny

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"Implacable November weather ..." Bleak House Chapter One: Read by Dominic Gerra...

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Hulks, Convicts & Reform: with Anna McKay

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Dickens on Screen: with Andrew Davies

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The Dickens Code: with Hugo Bowles & Claire Wood

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Ghosts at 48 Doughty St: with Emily Dunbar

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The French Revolution: with Adam Zamoyski

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THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP 📚: with Claire Wood

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Dickens and Travel: with Lucinda Hawksley

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BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry

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"I called myself Pip" Great Expectations Chapter One: Read by Dominic Gerrard

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Waterloo: with Bernard Cornwell

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Dickens in Carrara: with Marzia Dati

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Grip: with Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife

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The Turning Point: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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BARNABY RUDGE 📚: with John Bowen

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The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens: with Helena Kelly

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“I Am Born” David Copperfield Chapter One: Read by Dominic Gerrard

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Staplehurst: with Gerald Dickens

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS📚: with John Mullan

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Re-Reading A CHRISTMAS CAROL📚: with Rosie Holt

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Dickens' Women: with Miriam Margolyes

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Tim Carroll's A Christmas Carol

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Dickens and Christmas: with Lucinda Hawksley

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