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 ...

Wie der grantige Scrooge auf die Geister der Weihnacht trifft, ist die wohl bekannteste Weihnachtsgeschichte von Charles Dickens. Aber es ist nicht seine einzige. Folgen Sie uns in die Welt dieser warmherzigen Erzählungen, gelesen von Regina Münch.

A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent leader, Mr. Pickwick. Join him and his friends, Winkle, Snodgrass, and Tupman, as they tour the country in search of adventures, knowledge, and stories. Along the way, they have their share of mishaps, and meet plenty of interesting characters, both the good and the not so good. (Mr. Pickwick's dedicated manservant, Sam Weller, is a scene-stealer sure to ...

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Welcome to The Cathy Dickens Podcast were we will be talking Relationships and how hard it can be emotional, Stressful So Stay Tune

"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery" was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it originally appeared in serial form. Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels. It is also Dickens' "favorite child." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

Über 800 Leichen pflasterten seinen Weg, vom kleinen unbedeutenden Taschendieb wurde er zum tonangebenden Übergangster im Chicago der 1920er Jahre – Dickie Dick Dickens. Zusammen mit seinen Weggefährten erlebte er die bizarrsten Geschichten, stets auf der Flucht vor der Polizei, gerecht im Kampf gegen skrupellose Bosse und Banden. Mit Bastian Pastewka, Jürgen Thormann, Konstantin Graudus, Susanne Schrader, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Jens Wawrczeck und anderen.

Welcome to The Cathy Dickens Show were Amazing things happen

Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean old miser, is given a second chance to do right after being haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve in this Dickens classic. The Christmas Carol Audio Book.

With decades of broadcasting experience behind him, Andrew Dickens has worked around the world across multiple radio genres. His bold, sharp and energetic show on Newstalk ZB is always informative and entertaining.

Retro-Gangster-Epos als Kriminalsatire! Dies ist die Geschichte des legendären Dickie Dick Dickens, der im Chicago der Goldenen Zwanziger Jahre vom Taschendieb zum gefährlichsten Verbrecher der Vereinigten Staaten aufsteigt. In der ersten Staffel setzt sich Dickie mit einer gehörigen Portion Gewitztheit zusammen mit seiner Verlobten Effie Marconi und Opa Crackle gegen den mächtigen Gangsterboss Jim Cooper und seine Bande zur Wehr. In der zweiten Staffel zieht Dickie es zunächst vor, weiter i ...

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read/listen. Summary by Vivian Chan

From the opening passage itself of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the reader is drawn into the world of the hero, Pip, who is at that time, seven years old. The author creates an unforgettable atmosphere: the gloom of the graveyard, the melancholy of the orphan boy, the mists rising over the marshes and the terrifying appearance of an escaped convict in chains. Told in first person (one of the only two books that Dickens used this form for, the other being David Copperfield) Great Ex ...

“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, biting, clutching, covetous old sinner” is hardly hero material, but this is exactly what makes A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens such an unforgettable book and its hero, Ebenezer Scrooge such an extraordinarily enduring character. In the book's celebrated opening scene, on the night before Christmas the old miser Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold counting house, oblivious to the discomfort of his shivering young assistant Bob Cratchit. Scrooge ...

Its immortal opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." set the stage for a sweeping narrative that combines drama, glory, honor, history, romance, brutality, sacrifice and resurrection. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is one of the most widely read and famous works of historical fiction in the English language. Dickens had recently launched his magazine All the Year Round in 1859. In the same year, he began featuring A Tale of Two Cities in 31 weekly ins ...