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 Jane Austen Year ...

January 10, 2025 • Dominic Gerrard

Dominic has helped create a sister podcast to mark the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen's birth!

A Jane Austen Year is told by the people that work at Jane Austen’s House - the idyllic Hampshire cottage, in the south of England, where Jane Austen wrote her world famous novels.

On the first of every month a new episode of letters, scenes from the novels, recipes & talks about the objects in the house, will be published.

And every sound you hear - including the birds - were recorded in Jane Austen’s House and Garden.

So pour yourself a glass of Orange wine, and follow the link in the description, to enjoy the first January episode of this series …

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

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