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 🔥 

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