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"Charles Dickens" (83 results)
Tony Jordan introduces Charles Dickens and 'Great Expectations'.
Griff Rhys Jones reveals how Dickens created the idea of a traditional family Christmas through one of his best-known books, A...
Bringing Dickens to life with a host of his colourful characters - Simon Callow's exhilarating one-man show.
Program looking at Dickens' life and work.
In this special edition of World Book Club, biographer Claire Tomalin talks to Harriett Gilbert about Dickens no...
Armando Iannucci looks beyond the stature of Dickens as a national institution and instead explores the qualities of his work that ma...
Simon Callow reads passages from Dickens's Christmas story about Ebenezer Scrooge, who is confronted by the spirit of Ch...
Sarah Dillon is a literary detective on the hunt for the story behind the story of how great works were written. Dickens...
Arthur Clennam befriends seamstress Amy Dorrit and meets her extraordinary family at a debtor's prison. Stars Ian McKellen.
The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, his ghostly visitations and festive redemption. Read by Sean Baker.
In 1842, Charles Dickens embarked on a trip across the United States. Armed with his notes from the journey, Miriam Margolyes retraces Dickens's steps, re...
Looking at the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of his wife Catherine, Sue Perkins exposes the lesser-known reality of the D...
Taking an excerpt from Nicholas Nickleby, novelist AL Kennedy explores Charles Dickens's - and h...
Writer Alexander McCall Smith salutes Charles Dickens's mastery of the episodic form,...
Justin Cartwright reflects on the significant place that Christmas occupies in Charles Dickens's ...
Using David Copperfield as a starting point, novelist Romesh Gunesekera explores how Charles...
First in a three-part dramatised documentary series that brings the story of Charles Dickens to life, presented by Peter Ackroyd. This week, how the writer's early y...
Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark and giant of Australian literature, gives an imagina...
Focusing on Little Dorrit, Tessa Hadley explores how Dickens paints the reality of his world t...
Tony Jordan discusses why Dickens wrote 'Great Expectations' in instalments and explains the importance of the audience.
When Amelia and Arthur Havisham gather to hear the reading of their father's will, their lives are left in turmoil by its unexpected contents.
Bob Cratchit is late to work, much to Scrooge's disapproval. Bob tries to explain that he was looking after Tiny Tim, but to Scr...
Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale as told by Michael Bryant. Ebenezer Scrooge encounters the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley. Adapted i...
A Ghost Story for Christmas by Charles Dickens, abridged in eight episodes by Derek Parker and told by Martin Jarvis and Den...
First part of the adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel. Starring a young Daniel Radcliffe.
Charles Dickens' 1854 classic about struggles in the industrial north, dramatised for radio in four parts by Doug Lucie. Stars Kenneth Cranham and Philip J...
A 1962 BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist, serialised in thirteen episodes. Due in part to its transmission at Sunday teatimes...
Simon Callow's acclaimed one-man adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic for the small screen.
Tiny Tim's 'God bless us, every one!' is the rousing conclusion to Charles Dickens' festive fable A Christmas Carol. But what is the Christ...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
Kate Saunders, Matt Ridley and Rebecca Abrams on books by Elizabeth Taylor, Gerald Durrell and Charles Dickens.
Miriam Margolyes, Mark Haddon and Harriett Gilbert on books by Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf and Truman Capote.
At the peak of his career, Charles Dickens meets a young actress who soon becomes his muse and mistress. With Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas ...
An exploration of how Charles Dickens wove the stories of people from different class backgrounds into his novels.
A plot summary of Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations'.
Timothy Spall and Tom Hardy star in a 2007 adaptation of Charles Dickens's much-loved tale of a young orphan boy.
Christopher Frayling explores how Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol has endured in popular culture for over 170 y...
Tony Jordan brings his writer's insight to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.
Animation based on Charles Dickens's classic novel. Cold-hearted, penny-pinching Ebeneezer Scrooge is taken on an eye-opening journey by three ghost...
Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?
In the Catherine Tate Show, Nan gets a visit from the ghost of Christmas past and questions his credentials.
Blacklisted by the BBC, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society do not take their ban lying down and force themselves back on the BBC by hijacking...
Ten-part television series adapted from Dickens' novel, written by Hugh Leonard and directed by Alan Bridges.
Twelve-part dramatisation of Dickens' classic novel about a young boy, Pip, who is launched on a journey that takes him from being a blacksmith's a...
Starring Maggie Steed and Douglas Hodge in a twelve-part radio dramatisation of Dickens' classic tale about the turbulent childhood of orphan Pip.
Sarah Phelps' lavish three part adaptation of the classic Dickens tale of a life changed in a heartbeat. Starring Gillian Anderson, Douglas Booth, ...
Steven Knight's chilling take on the Dickens classic, starring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham.
Adapted for screen by Alexander Baron and directed by Gareth Davies, this version follows Dickens' novel more closely than many others.
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