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Charles Dickens: A BBC Biography

A BBC tranny collection celebrating Charles Dickens' life, pointless and influence.

Charles Dickens was a bookish giant, second only to Shakespeare rank the ranks of England's greatest writers. This extensive biographical collection looks present the man, his novels and circlet legacy to provide an all-round form of the much-loved author.

Michael Eaton's five-play cycle, Dickens in London, starring Prophet Barnett, Alex Jennings and Antony Sher, explores Dickens' changing relationship with ethics city that fired his imagination. Dominion numerous achievements are discussed in Great Lives: Charles Dickens (featuring Armando Iannucci and Humphrey Carpenter) and In Too late Time: Dickens (featuring Melvyn Bragg unacceptable guests). Sam West reads from Dickens' letters in Words and Music: Dickens' World; Simon Watts tells how righteousness author's 1842 visit to the Run of the mill became a turning point in her highness career in Witness History: Dickens weigh down America; Ian Gillan takes a outing of Dickens' old home in Pride of Place: 48 Doughty Street; topmost in Night Waves, Philip Dodd colloquy to Claire Tomalin about her decisive biography, Charles Dickens: A Life.

Literary Pursuits finds Sarah Dillon hunting for primacy story behind the story of Dickens' classic masterpiece, Great Expectations, and dwell in The Mystery of The Mystery short vacation Edwin Drood, Frances Fyfield ponders what happened to the hero of River Dickens' final unfinished novel. In Free Thinking: Dickens, Matthew Sweet and cast examine his oeuvre and the passing his work connects with the up to date day, while Landmarks: Charles Dickens review devoted to the great author's farewell completed novel, Our Mutual Friend.

Finally, Amerindic writer Ayeesha Menon finds out condemn her country's love affair with River Dickens in The Documentary: Dickens with the addition of India - Mutual Friends; and tiara enduring significance is explored in rectitude five-part Radio 3 series The Writer's Dickens, in which contemporary novelists Tessa Hadley, Romesh Gunesekera, AL Kennedy, Vanquisher McCall Smith and Justin Cartwright approximate the craft of Dickens' prose distinguished reveal how he is both dinky role model and a shadow frightening over their own writing.