A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part Two) 📚 : with John Bowen Artwork

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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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part Two) 📚 : with John Bowen

December 23, 2025 • Dominic Gerrard

Welcome to Part Two of Dominic and John Bowen's journey through A Christmas Carol ...

With readings again from Hollie Hales and violin parts performed by Alexis Bennett.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!

This episode was first broadcast on December 28, 2024

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Host: Dominic Gerrard
Series Artwork: Léna Gibert
Original Music: Dominic Gerrard

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