Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥
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!Â
Along side these interviews there are special Dickens readings from across his works ...
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 85
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
GREAT EXPECTATIONS📚: with John Mullan
Re-Reading A CHRISTMAS CAROL📚: with Rosie Holt
It's Christmas Eve ... and Dominic's special guest is the brilliant actress, comedian and satirist, Rosie Holt and host of the NonCensored Podcast. This week, they have both re-read A Christmas Carol…
Dickens' Women: with Miriam Margolyes
In this episode Dominic is joined by the inimitable Miriam Margolyes. With a career spanning six decades, this celebrated actress has been a life-long fan of Dickens throughout. Now in her 80th year …
Tim Carroll's A Christmas Carol
In this Christmas episode Dominic is joined by the Tony Award winning director Tim Carroll. They share their love for Dickens and discuss the process of creating two very different stage adaptations …
Dickens and Christmas: with Lucinda Hawksley
In this first episode, Dominic is joined by Dickens' Great-Great-Great Granddaughter, the Writer and Broadcaster, Lucinda Hawksley.Â
On a cold December morning they talk through Lucinda's book Dick…