Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥
Hosted by Dominic · Dominic Gerrard
4.9from 55 ratings
- 111
- Episodes
- 2
- Transcribed
- 55
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥
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 🔥
- Publisher
- Dominic Gerrard
- Category
- arts · education · fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Dec 2021
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
2 of 111 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026
NO THOROUGHFARE 📚: with Emily Middleton
12 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Plays of Charles Dickens: Joanna Hofer-Robinson & Pete Orford
28 Aug 2026
A TALE OF TWO CITIES 📚: with Céline Prest
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The Plays of Charles Dickens: Joanna Hofer-Robinson & Pete Orford
Published 12 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Thanks very much. I'm very happy to be here. And Pete, welcome back again. Always happy to be back. Where do we start and what are these plays? Well, Pete and I ended up making this a little bit of a book of two halves. So perhaps I'll introduce the first plays, which Dickens wrote for the St. James's Theatre, and then I'll let Pete take over for his later collaborative efforts. So the book itself begins with some plays that Dickens wrote for the professional theatre in the 1830s. He writes three, all within quite a short space of time. There's The Strange Gentleman, The Village Croquettes, which is a kind of comic operetta that he writes the libretto for and the music is composed by John Huller. […]
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