Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Actor Dominic Gerrard hosts an exciting new series that explores the Life and Times of Charles Dickens: his extraordinary novels, who he was as a person, his career as a performer, and his activism.
Guests include: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Alice Loxton, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lucinda Hawksley, John Mullan, Pen Vogler, Andrew Davies, Rosie Holt, Bernard Cornwell .... and many more academics, writers, actors, directors and descendants of the great man himself!
Along side these interviews there are special Dickens readings from across his works ...
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Podcasting since 2021 • 100 episodes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Latest Episodes

NO THOROUGHFARE 📚: with Emily Middleton

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October 07, 2026 • 38:31

The Plays of Charles Dickens: Joanna Hofer-Robinson & Pete Orford

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September 12, 2026 • 38:27

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August 28, 2026 • 58:22

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