Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥
By 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 these interviews there are special Dickens readings from across his works ...Thank you for listening 🔥
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A Tour of 48 Doughty Street: with Jordan Evans-Hill
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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A Jane Austen Year ...
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part Two) 📚 : with John Bowen
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part One) 📚 : with John Bowen
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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'What Brutal Hand …?': with Lydia Craig
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN 📚 : with Lydia Craig
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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The Christmas Illustrations: with Lucinda Hawksley
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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The Gordon Riots: with Ian Haywood
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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DROOD ...📚 And Our Endless Attempts To End It: with Pete Orford
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May 15, 2024 |
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Mrs Dickens: with Emily Howes
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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London Tide: with Ben Power
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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"The Haunted Man" (Excerpt): Read by Tom Andrews
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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“The Battle of Life” (Excerpt): Read by Rebecca Tanwen
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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"The Cricket on the Hearth" (Excerpt): Read by Tom Bennett
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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"The Chimes" (Excerpt): Read by Carlyss Peer
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Christmas Carols: with Harry Christophers & The Sixteen
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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"The Holly Tree" (Excerpt): Read by Chris Nayak
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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A Dickensian Christmas Dinner: with Pen Vogler
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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"A Christmas Carol" Stave One (Excerpt) : Read by Rosie Holt
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Lost Portrait: with Emma Rutherford
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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"Christmas at Dingley Dell": Read by Gina Beck
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Charles Ignatius Sancho: with Paterson Joseph
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Palimpsest: with Céleste Callen
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The Haunted Actor: with James Swanton
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Stuffed (A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain): with Pen Vogler
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The Gunpowder Plot (from 'A Child's History of England') 📚 : Read by Dominic Gerrard
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Charles and Catherine: with Helena Kelly
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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THE SIGNAL-MAN 📚: with John Bowen
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES 📚: with Dr. Emily Bell
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Shorthand Mysteries: with Dr. Claire Wood & Prof. Hugo Bowles
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Copperfield, Chuzzlewit ... Partridge? : with Armando Iannucci
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Dickens, Bergson & Time Travel: with Céleste Callen
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD 📚: with Pete Orford
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Dickens' Handwriting: with Emma Bache
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Paul Dombey's Wallpaper: with J.M. Varese
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Mega Dickens Readalong: with Katie Lumsden
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Bleak Health: with Nicholas Cambridge
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May 19, 2023 |
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Biddy: with Laurie Ogden
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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OLIVER TWIST 📚: with Emily Bell
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Dickens Re-imagined: with Steven Knight
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." A Tale of Two Cities (Chapter One): Read by Dominic Gerrard
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Great Adaptations: with Harry Lloyd
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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UPROAR! with Alice Loxton
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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THE BATTLE OF LIFE 📚: with Katie Lumsden
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Pip's Christmas Dinner: Read by Dominic Gerrard
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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"Come in! and know me better man!" A Christmas Carol (Excerpt): Read by Dominic Gerrard
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON 📚(Then Wrote a Carol & Rang A New Year In!) with Claire Wood
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL & Other Christmas Books📚: with Robert Douglas Fairhurst
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Rose Theatre A Christmas Carol: with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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HARD TIMES 📚: with Gage McWeeny
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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"Implacable November weather ..." Bleak House Chapter One: Read by Dominic Gerrard
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Hulks, Convicts & Reform: with Anna McKay
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Dickens on Screen: with Andrew Davies
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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The Dickens Code: with Hugo Bowles & Claire Wood
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Ghosts at 48 Doughty St: with Emily Dunbar
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The French Revolution: with Adam Zamoyski
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP 📚: with Claire Wood
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Dickens and Travel: with Lucinda Hawksley
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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"I called myself Pip" Great Expectations Chapter One: Read by Dominic Gerrard
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Waterloo: with Bernard Cornwell
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Dickens in Carrara: with Marzia Dati
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May 08, 2022 |
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Grip: with Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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The Turning Point: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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BARNABY RUDGE 📚: with John Bowen
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens: with Helena Kelly
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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“I Am Born” David Copperfield Chapter One: Read by Dominic Gerrard
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Staplehurst: with Gerald Dickens
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS📚: with John Mullan
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Re-Reading A CHRISTMAS CAROL📚: with Rosie Holt
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Dickens' Women: with Miriam Margolyes
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Tim Carroll's A Christmas Carol
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Dickens and Christmas: with Lucinda Hawksley
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Dec 07, 2021 |