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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Dominic Gerrard

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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100 episodes

  1. Headless Horsemen & Morphean Space: with Kirstin Mills 38:03
  2. TO BE READ AT DUSK 📚: with Emily Middleton 29:19
  3. The Lawyer and The Ghost: Read by Jonathan Broadbent 7:52
  4. THE SIGNAL-MAN 📚: with John Bowen 42:08
  5. The Cock Lane Ghost: with Emma Clery 47:04
  6. THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES 📚: with Dr. Emily Bell 51:32
  7. THE BLACK VEIL 📚: with Andrew Smith 43:41
  8. HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!! 🎃 5:12
  9. NO THOROUGHFARE 📚: with Emily Middleton 38:31
  10. The Plays of Charles Dickens: Joanna Hofer-Robinson & Pete Orford 38:27
  11. A TALE OF TWO CITIES 📚: with Céline Prest 58:22
  12. (Encore!) Copperfeld, Chuzzlewit ... Partridge? : with Armando Iannucci 42:18
  13. NEW EPISODES for 2026 !!! 📚 1:36
  14. Look Closer: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 43:28
  15. The Muppet Christmas Carol: with Meredith Braun 42:43
  16. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH 📚 : with Lydia Craig 54:36
  17. Dickens' Carol Manuscript : with Philip Palmer 28:19
  18. "Master Humphrey's Christmas": Read by Dominic Gerrard 14:02
  19. What Matters in Jane Austen & Charles Dickens? : with John Mullan 41:04
  20. The War of the Worlds: with Jeff Wayne 36:18
  21. Two Cities: with Jeff Wayne 22:35
  22. PICTURES FROM ITALY 📚: with Pete Orford 37:22
  23. The Manuscript at Staplehurst: with Leon Litvack 17:43
  24. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 📚: with Leon Litvack 44:05
  25. Vincent Van Gogh: with Carol Jacobi 40:33
  26. The Verse of Charles Dickens: with Lydia Craig & Emily Middleton 38:54
  27. (Encore!) BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry 49:07
  28. GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION 📚: with Emily Middleton 42:57
  29. George Silverman's Explanation (Audiobook): Read by Dominic Gerrard 1:16:51
  30. Pickwick's Legacy ... 6:33
  31. THE PICKWICK PAPERS 📚 : with Hugo Bowles 48:39
  32. A Tour of 48 Doughty Street: with Jordan Evans-Hill 32:49
  33. A Jane Austen Year ... 1:00
  34. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part Two) 📚 : with John Bowen 52:41
  35. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part One) 📚 : with John Bowen 55:04
  36. ‘What Brutal Hand …?': with Lydia Craig 4:40
  37. THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN 📚 : with Lydia Craig 54:05
  38. The Christmas Illustrations: with Lucinda Hawksley 48:20
  39. The Gordon Riots: with Ian Haywood 50:52
  40. DROOD ...📚 And Our Endless Attempts To End It: with Pete Orford 40:38
  41. Mrs Dickens: with Emily Howes 36:22
  42. London Tide: with Ben Power 29:31
  43. "The Haunted Man" (Excerpt): Read by Tom Andrews 9:32
  44. “The Battle of Life” (Excerpt): Read by Rebecca Tanwen 11:49
  45. "The Cricket on the Hearth" (Excerpt): Read by Tom Bennett 13:18
  46. "The Chimes" (Excerpt): Read by Carlyss Peer 11:42
  47. Christmas Carols: with Harry Christophers & The Sixteen 52:32
  48. A Dickensian Christmas Dinner: with Pen Vogler 40:47
  49. "The Holly Tree" (Excerpt): Read by Chris Nayak 13:51
  50. The Lost Portrait: with Emma Rutherford 40:00