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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Dec 7, 2021 • 45min
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. On a cold December morning they talk through Lucinda's book Dickens and Christmas , which has just been published in paperback by Pen & Sword Books. It follows the story of Dickens' earliest Christmas as an infant, through to the five great festive novellas he wrote during the 1840s.From A Christmas Carol to the Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain ...Lucinda's also shares her earliest memories of knowing who Dickens was and what she really thinks about each of the five Christmas books!Support the showIf you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrardThank you so much!Host: Dominic GerrardSeries Artwork: Léna GibertOriginal Music: Dominic GerrardThank you for listening!
