Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Dominic is joined by the brilliant Morgan Lloyd Malcolm: who’s writing for stage and screen includes her pivotal play Emilia - which won three Olivier Awards when it transferred from Shakespeare’s Gl…

Dominic is joined by Gage Mcweeny, who is Professor of English at Williams College, Massachusetts. Gage is an alumni of both Columbia and Princeton, with a specialism in nineteenth-century literature…

Host Dominic Gerrard reads the opening chapter of Bleak House ...

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Dominic is joined by the brilliant Dr. Anna Mckay who is a social and cultural historian who specialises in both 18th & 19th Century British Maritime history and the methods of confinement that were …

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Andrew Davies whose iconic screen adaptations include  Bleak House, Pride & Prejudice, War & Peace, Les Miserablés, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair ... and many more!

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In this bumper episode Dominic is joined by the brilliant Prof. Hugo Bowles from Italy's University of Foggia and welcomes back to the series the inimitable Dr. Claire Wood.

Together they take the li…

Dominic is joined by the brilliant Dr. Emily Dunbar, curator at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.

Today the museum launches its new exhibition To Be Read at Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts and the Supernatu…

Dominic is joined by the fantastic historian Adam Zamoyski who shares his insight into the origins of both Revolutionary thought and action in the last quarter of the 18th Century: what Dickens famou…

Dominic is Joined by the brilliant Dr. Claire Wood, who is a lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester and a former research associate at the University of York. Claire’s writin…

It's summer ... the perfect time to talk about Dickens' travels abroad. Dominic is joined again by the brilliant Lucinda Hawskley who returns to talk about her new book Dickens and Travel ... A perfe…

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Stephen Fry who takes the listener on an intricate journey through the fog and mystery of Dickens' thrilling masterpiece: Bleak House

Reading extracts from Esther's…

Host Dominic Gerrard reads the opening chapter of Great Expectations ...

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On the 207th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo Dominic is joined by the inimitable Bernard Cornwell OBE.

Author of the hugely successful Sharpe series which takes the reader through the Napoleoni…

Dominic is joined by  Marzia Dati: Professor of English Literature at  Liceo Marconi High School and founder of the first Italian Branch of the International Dickens Fellowship, in her home town of C…

Dominic is joined by Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife for a special episode on Grip.

Chris looks after the world famous ravens at the Tower of London, and tells hilarious anecdotes about his Ravens and…

Dominic is joined by Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst to discuss his extraordinary biography of Dickens The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World ...

The year is 1851 and London's…

Dominic is joined by the brilliant  John Bowen:  Professor of 19th Century Literature at the University of York. He is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit a book which focuses on Dick…

Dominic is joined by the celebrated Austen biographer Dr. Helena Kelly -  author of Jane Austen, The Secret Radical

Helena has completed a new, soon to be published,  biography on Dickens and gives …

To mark Charles Dickens' 210th Birthday, Dominic reads the opening chapter of David Copperfield ...

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