Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥 Podcast
1) NEW EPISODES COMING!
Dominic checks in with his listeners to announce that exciting NEW EPISODES of Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥 will arrive at the end of October ... You can support the costs of recording and pro...Show More
2) The War of the Worlds: with Jeff Wayne
Dominic now to Jeff Wayne about the creation of his masterpiece The Musical Version of The War of the Worlds ... At time of recording this multiplatinum album has sold over 16 million copies worldwide...Show More
3) Two Cities: with Jeff Wayne
Dominic speaks to the award-winning composer Jeff Wayne about Two Cities (his Musical adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities) that opened at the Palace Theatre, in London's West End, on 27th February 1969...Show More
4) PICTURES FROM ITALY 📚: with Pete Orford
In the July of 1844 Dickens, his wife Catherine, their five children, his sister-in-law Georgina - plus three servants and their dog Timber - left London for Italy. What followed was an extraordinary ...Show More
5) The Manuscript at Staplehurst: with Leon Litvack
Bonus Episode! In which Dr. Leon Litvack recounts Dickens' dramatic retrieval of Part 16 of the Manuscript of Our Mutual Friend from the swaying carriage at Staplehurst; and reveals, here for the fir...Show More
6) OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 📚: with Leon Litvack
Dominic is joined by Dr. Leon Litvack who's new edition of Our Mutual Friend for Oxford University Press will be published in November Leon is a reader at Queen’s University Belfast, and is an expert ...Show More
7) Vincent Van Gogh: with Carol Jacobi
Vincent Van Gogh was an avid reader of Dickens. Throughout his life Dickens' works provided not only a mental 'scaffold' that helped him to believe in his own mission as an artist, but also pull himse...Show More
8) The Verse of Charles Dickens: with Lydia Craig & Emily Middleton
Dickens' genius as a novelist is acknowledged the world over ... but what was he like as a poet? Joining Dominic today to find out are the inimitable Dr. Lydia Craig & Dr. Emily Middleton who have jus...Show More
9) (Encore!) BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry
Ahead of a new series Dominic re-shares the most popular episode of this show so far! Bleak House with the inimitable Stephen Fry who takes the listener on an intricate journey through the fog and mys...Show More
10) GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION 📚: with Emily Middleton
Hot on the heels of Dominic's audiobook of George Silverman's Explanation comes the discussion with Dr. Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) … who we’ve met before in the episodes on Oliver Twist and The L...Show More