A New Podcast celebrating the Life & Works of Charles Dickens! Hosted by actor @dominicgerrard Listen here: buzzsprout.com/1897197 🎙🎩📚
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27 Jul 2022
✨TODAY’S EPISODE ✨
The inimitable #StephenFry guides us through the fog and mystery of Dickens’ Bleak House … 🔥
Listen to his extraordinary interview here: buzzsprout.com/1897197/11036…
#BleakHouse #CharlesDickens #ABrainOnFire #SpontaneousCombustion #EstherSummerson #Jarndyce
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I’m delighted to have been invited to speak @uniofleicester Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series! Join next Weds 25th Feb 5.15pm GMT (in person/online) for a free talk on ‘Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle’ and Victorian Bodies: tickettailor.com/events/cent… 🦠 📕
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Thanks to a wonderful @DickensFire podcast we have today been reminded that Vincent Van Gogh was inspired by Luke Fildes’ painting of Charles Dickens’ empty chair here at Gad’s Hill.
Van Gogh was deeply inspired and comforted by Dickens’ works throughout his all too short life.
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23 Sep 2025
It's US publication day for The Worlds of Jane Austen! Ranging from Jane's racy granny all the way down to the most recent adaptations and Austen-adjacent shows like Bridgerton, it's been hailed as 'a gem', 'a treasure-trove', 'a true delight' and 'a treat for fans'.
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28 Aug 2025
These Two Episodes were fun to record!
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28 Aug 2025
✨STAGING DICKENS & H.G. WELLS !!! ✨
Acclaimed composer Jeff Wayne talks to @DickensFire about his West End show TWO CITIES & his iconic album THE WAR OF THE WORLDS ...
Listen (on Apple, Spotify etc)
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#WarOfTheWorlds #DickensPodcast #WestEnd
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ALT The War of Worlds Cover Art by Mike Trim. Logo by John Pash
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28 Aug 2025
✨STAGING DICKENS & H.G. WELLS !!! ✨
Acclaimed composer Jeff Wayne talks to @DickensFire about his West End show TWO CITIES & his iconic album THE WAR OF THE WORLDS ...
Listen (on Apple, Spotify etc)
buzzsprout.com/1897197/episo…
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#WarOfTheWorlds #DickensPodcast #WestEnd
ALT Edward Woodward as Sydney Carton in the 1969 production of "Two Cities". Production shots held by National Theatre and V&A Archives
ALT Jeff Wayne image c/o MartianMFM
ALT "Two Cities" Original Cast Recording cover c/o Jeff Wayne Music Group Ltd
ALT The War of Worlds Cover Art by Mike Trim. Logo by John Pash
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27 Aug 2025
Really fun episode from my favorite podcast @DickensFire
27 Aug 2025
✨DICKENS ABROAD!✨
In this @dickensfire episode the inimable @DrPeteOrford leads us through Dickens' dizzying Grand Tour as he speaks about his research for the new @OUPAcademic edition of PICTURES FROM ITALY 📚🇮🇹
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27 Aug 2025
✨DICKENS ABROAD!✨
In this @dickensfire episode the inimable @DrPeteOrford leads us through Dickens' dizzying Grand Tour as he speaks about his research for the new @OUPAcademic edition of PICTURES FROM ITALY 📚🇮🇹
buzzsprout.com/1897197/episo…
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14 Aug 2025
✨TWO EPISODES✨
With the inimitable Dr. Leon Litvack @DickensLetters on his new @OUPAcademic edition of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND ... which restores sections that had to be cut from the original publication!
Listen here (on Apple, Spotify etc)
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11 Aug 2025
Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire -- Our Principal Editor, Leon Litvack, talks with Dominic Gerrard about Our Mutual Friend and Dickens Letters:
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✨LATEST EPISODE✨
Vincent Van Gogh was a HUGE fan of Dickens - both creatively & psychologically! Knowing this makes you see his paintings even more powerfully.
The inimitable @caroljjacobi curator at @Tate shows us how:
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28 Jul 2025
Until midnight on Thursday @Waterstones are offering 25% off online and in-app pre-orders on hundreds of brilliant forthcoming books, including The Worlds of Jane Austen! Just add SUMMER25 at the checkout.
@FelicityBryan @quarto_pub
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28 Jul 2025
Dickens - one of the greatest novelists of all time - wrote some truly TERRIBLE poetry. It is very entertaining to read though!👇🏻
28 Jul 2025
✨NEW EPISODE✨
A hugely entertaining appraisal of Dicken's poetry with the inimitable @lydiaecraig & @EJLMiddleton on their new book THE VERSE OF CHARLES DICKENS @EdinburghUP 🔍✍️
Listen here (on Apple, Spotify etc): buzzsprout.com/1897197/episo…
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28 Jul 2025
✨NEW EPISODE✨
A hugely entertaining appraisal of Dicken's poetry with the inimitable @lydiaecraig & @EJLMiddleton on their new book THE VERSE OF CHARLES DICKENS @EdinburghUP 🔍✍️
Listen here (on Apple, Spotify etc): buzzsprout.com/1897197/episo…
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16 May 2025
✨TODAY'S EPISODE✨
Hot on the heels of this week's audiobook ... the inimitable Dr. Emily Middleton returns for a discussion with @dominicgerrard on George Silverman's Explanation, which she is editing for @OUPAcademic
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12 May 2025
Thrilled to release this audiobook today! Dickens attacking poverty, psychological abuse and religious control …
Listen for free on @DickensFire podcast or purchase on Apple Books (and other platforms)
12 May 2025
✨TODAY’S EPISODE✨
@dominicgerrard reads George Silverman’s Explanation … 1st published in @TheAtlantic (1868)
A deeply powerful indictment against poverty & religious control as you will find in anything else Dickens ever wrote
With stunning cover art by Lena Gibert
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12 May 2025
✨TODAY’S EPISODE✨
@dominicgerrard reads George Silverman’s Explanation … 1st published in @TheAtlantic (1868)
A deeply powerful indictment against poverty & religious control as you will find in anything else Dickens ever wrote
With stunning cover art by Lena Gibert
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9 May 2025
The Worlds of Jane Austen is out on Thursday 25th September!
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29 Apr 2025
🖼️ Our brand-new display, THE ART OF CASSANDRA is now open! Featuring 10 artworks by Jane Austen’s beloved older sister Cassandra, this is the largest-ever public display of her surviving works!
🎟️ Free with House entry
💻 Online version available
🔗 tinyurl.com/mwd5etby
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