A Bi-Monthly podcast that looks at famous classic books and analysis them with an eye on any original Christian cultural perspectives.
Season 1 Charles Dickens.
Season 2 - William Shakespeare
Charles Dickins - Great Expectations- Becoming and Belonging.
Send us Fan Mail This month, we turn to one of Dickens’s most beloved and enduring novels: Great Expectations. If our last episode took us through the tumults of revolution and the astonishing possibility of resurrection, this one brings us somewhere far more intimate, into the heart of a young boy named Pip, and into the long, winding path of becoming the person he was meant to be. Great Expectations is ultimately a story of transformation. Not sudden, dramatic transformation, but slow...
1 Sept 2026
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities. (1859)
Send us Fan Mail Today, I step into one of Dickens’s most dramatic landscapes. Gone are the fog‑choked courts of Bleak House, the industrial crash of Hard Times, and the quiet prisons of Little Dorrit. Instead, we find ourselves standing at the very edge of history in two cities, London and Paris, in drawing rooms and streets, in a world trembling under the anticipated weight of revolution. A Tale of Two Cities is a novel of contrasts. Light and darkness, hope and despair, cruelty and compass...
1 Aug 2026
Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit (1874)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the series. As we turn the page from Hard Times to Little Dorrit, we move from one of Dickens’s most compressed, industrially charged novels into one of his most expansive and, let’s be honest, most devastating works. Yet the shift is not a departure—it’s a deepening. Hard Times exposed a world stripped down to facts, figures, and utility. It showed us what happens when imagination is starved, and compassion is mechanised, when human beings are reduced t...
1 Jul 2026
Charles Dickens - Hard Times (1857) Fact Fire, and the Machinery of the Human Spirit.
Send us Fan Mail The Classic Literature Podcast. My monthly podcast that looks at famous classic books I have been reading and considers them with an eye on any original Christian cultural perspectives. Charles Dickens - Hard Times (1857) Fact Fire, and the Machinery of the Human Spirit. Welcome to Hard Times, Dickens’s shortest novel, and in many ways, his sharpest. This is Dickens at his most prophetic, warning us about a worldview that reduces people to numbers, imagination to waste, and c...
1 Jun 2026
Charles Dickens - Bleak House. (1853) Justice, and the Human Heart.
Send us Fan Mail The Classic Literature Podcast. My monthly podcast that looks at famous classic books I have been reading and analyzes them with an eye on any original Christian cultural perspectives. Charles Dickens - Bleak House (1853) Justice, and the Human Heart. Episode Notes: This month, I have been reading one of the greatest achievements of Charles Dickens’s imagination. A novel vast in scope, prophetic in tone, and startlingly modern in its concerns. Bleak House is...
1 May 2026
Charles Dickens “David Copperfield. (1848) The Making of a Life.
Send us Fan Mail Today, I look at what Charles Dickens himself called his “favourite child; David Copperfield. This is Dickens turning the pen towards interpreting his own life. It is a redemption story where childhood becomes the soil in which the soul can grow in grace, and where the search for identity becomes a spiritual pilgrimage. This is Dickens at his most personal and his most vulnerable, and because of that, it is also Dickens at his most universal. We read David Copperfield not sim...
12 Apr 2026
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol. (1843) The Good News of Transformation.
Send us Fan Mail (Please note this episode was originally recorded and release on Christmas Eve 2025 a free 'subscribes only' bonus episode for people following me on Patreon). Episode Notes: Few stories have entered the cultural bloodstream like A Christmas Carol. First published in December 1843, it was an instant success—selling out its first edition within days and never going out of print since. At its heart, A Christmas Carol is a gospel narrative. Ebenezer Scrooge begins as...
29 Mar 2026
Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) , “Martin Chuzzle-what?”
Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop. (Please note this episode was the first of My Charles Dickens episodes originally recorded in 2025 as a free 'subscribes only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project Daily Podcast on Patreon). Episode Notes: Hello and welcome to today’s episode, where I drop into the world of Martin Chuzzlewit—the Dickens novel that even some Dickens fans sometimes only pretend they’ve read. If Oliver Twist would become...
29 Mar 2026
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (1848). Pride, Loss, and the God Who Breaks Our Certainties.
Send us Fan Mail When Charles Dickens published Dombey and Son in 1846, he stepped into a deeper, darker, and more mature phase of his writing. If A Christmas Carol is the gospel wrapped in snow and candlelight, Dombey and Son is the truth spoken through grief, pride, and the slow unravelling of a man who believes he is untouchable. Spiritually, Dombey and Son is a story of idolatry and it undoing. It echoes the wisdom literature of the Bible, books like Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and even Job. ...
15 Mar 2026
Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge (1841) Fanaticism, and the Mob.
Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge. (Please note this episode was originally recorded in December 2025 as a free 'subscribes only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project Daily Podcast on Patreon). To obtain the Copyright free recording of this book that I used in this recording by Actress Mil Nicholson visit: Barnaby Rudge (version 2) | Episode Notes: Barnaby Rudge, Dickens’s first historical novel, begins in the quiet village of Chigw...
1 Mar 2026
Charles Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby. (1839) Courage, Compassion, and the Gospel of Justice.
Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby. (1839) (Please note this episode was originally recorded in Oct 2025 as a free 'subscribes only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project daily Podcast on Patreon). Episode Notes: In this episode, we journey through Nicholas Nickleby—Dickens’s third novel and his first great act of moral protest. From the cruelty of Dotheboys Hall to the compassion of the Cheeryble brothers, we’ll explore how justice, mercy, a...
15 Feb 2026
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) - Innocence on the Edge of Eternity.
Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop. (Please note this episode was originally recorded in Oct 2025 as a free 'subscribes only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project Daily Podcast on Patreon). To obtain the Copyright free recording of this book that I used in this recording by Actress Mil Nicholson visit: The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2) | LibriVox Episode Notes:: Today, I turn my attention to The Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens’...
1 Feb 2026
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - The Gospel in Rags. (1837)
Send us Fan Mail What if the most Christlike figure in a Dickens novel wasn’t a clergyman… but a condemned woman? In this episode, we walk through the shadows of Oliver Twist—from the innocence of Oliver to the sacrifice of Nancy, and the judgment that falls upon Sikes. Join me as we uncover how Dickens used fiction to preach mercy, confront cruelty, and stir the soul. Last time, we wandered through the comic countryside of The Pickwick Papers, where joy was abundant, trousers were frequently...
18 Jan 2026
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1837) Piety, and the Gospel of Good Cheer.
Send us Fan Mail Today, we’re turning the page on the book that started it all: The Pickwick Papers. This is Dickens before the fog, before the orphans, before the murderers and moral reckonings. It’s his debut novel, published in 1836, and it’s bursting with youthful exuberance, absurd adventures, and a kind of joy that insists that life, despite its pratfalls, is worth celebrating. We meet Mr. Samuel Pickwick, a rotund gentleman of leisure with a heart as generous as both his waistlin...
4 Jan 2026
The Classic Literature Podcast Season 1, Episode 1. Charles Dickens and the Victorian Gospel Imagination. Introduction
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The First Ever Episode of The Classic Literature Podcast. “In the beginning was the Word…” — John 1:1 Welcome to The Classic Literature Podcast. I’m your host, Jeremy McCandless, and I’m so glad you’ve joined me for this first episode of a new bi-monthly journey—one that explores the great works of classic literature, approaching these great books via the world out of which they emerged—a cultural heritage, rich in spiritual metaphor. Each season, we’ll walk ...
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