In his exhilarating one-man show, Simon Callow brings Charles Dickens to life, as well as some of his best-loved characters.
The play was written by Peter Ackroyd, author of the definitive Charles Dickens biography. As well as recreating scenes from Dickens' novels, Ackroyd also explores the writer's famous reading tours of Britain and America and provides a fascinating social history of 19th century London.
Great Expectations Penguin Classics by Charles Dickens
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to becalled Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister – Mrs Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription
"The Old Curiosity Shop"
by Charles Dickens
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
The Old Curiosity Shop (along with Barnaby Rudge) was one of two novels which Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841, when Barnaby Rudge was published. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed as a separate book in 1841.
"The Pickwick Papers"
by Charles Dickens
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
A Radio 4 dramatization of Dickens's episodic and amusing adventures of Mr Samuel Pickwick and his fellow-members of the Pickwick Club.
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens [UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK ]
It is the latter part of the eighteenth century, France and England are at war. Then the French Revolution begins and some people who were friends become enemies. But strange things happen in such turbulent times.
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