Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥
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Podcast Overview
<div>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. <br>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! <br>Along side these interviews there are special Dickens readings from across his works ...<br>Thank you for listening 🔥 </div>
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12/7/2021
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Recent Episodes
July 11, 2026
(Encore!) Copperfeld, Chuzzlewit ... Partridge? : with Armando Iannucci
Host Dominic interviews comedy writer Armando Iannucci about his deep literary passions, particularly Charles Dickens and John Milton, revealing their lasting influence.
February 28, 2026
NEW EPISODES for 2026 !!! 📚
Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! will return in the summer ... In the meantime there are nearly 100 Episodes to enjoy with guests such as: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Andrew Davies, Alice Loxton, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lucinda Hawksley, John Bowen, John Mullan, Rosie Holt, Steven Knight …. And many more! And if you’d like to make a small donation to cover the costs of researching, recording and producing this series, wherever and whenever you listening to this y...
January 31, 2026
Look Closer: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Dominic welcomes back one of the most celebrated guests of this series Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ... Robert’s latest book Look Closer: How to get more out of reading (published by Penguin) is an invitation to all of us to go deeper into our reading, and find greater joy and meaning in the works of great writers from all ages and backgrounds. With examples from Dickens (of course!) but also George Eliot, Shakespeare, Margaret Attwood, Samuel Becket, Jane Austen and many more …&n...
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- What is Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥?
<div>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. <br>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! <br>Along side these interviews there are special Dickens readings from across his works ...<br>Thank you for listening 🔥 </div> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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