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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Dominic Gerrard

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

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17:43

The Manuscript at Staplehurst: with Leon Litvack

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2025/08/13

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 first time, a key discovery he has made; plus the cut sections he has restored in his new Oxford University Press Edition of the novel ... Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.c...

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44:07

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 📚: with Leon Litvack

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2025/08/07

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 analyst of Dickens’ letters, manuscripts & handwriting. As well as being the Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project he sits on the Advisory Council for the UK’s National Records and Archives and is a board member of the Charles Dickens Museum … And returning to the series to read exc...

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40:33

Vincent Van Gogh: with Carol Jacobi

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2025/07/31

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 himself out of deep depressions ... Here to talk to Dominic today about the powerful connection between Dickens and Van Gogh is the inimitable Carol Jacobi, Curator of British Art (1850-1915) at Tate Britain where her many exhibitions included the celebrated Van Gogh in Britain … Here are links to pai...

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38:54

The Verse of Charles Dickens: with Lydia Craig &...

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2025/07/25

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 just co-authored The Verse of Charles Dickens (Edinburgh University Press) Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Seri...

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49:07

(Encore!) BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry

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2025/07/15

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 mystery of Dickens' thrilling masterpiece. And reading extracts from Esther's narrative is the brilliant Sally Scott And here is a link to Miriam Margolyes' unabridged audiobook of Bleak House mentioned in the episode Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of prod...

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42:57

GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION 📚: with Emily Middleton

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2025/05/16

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 Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices … Emily is working on George Silverman, and other rarer Dickens stories for Oxford University Press, and has just published The Verse of Charles of Dickens for Edinburgh University Press which she has co-authored with Dr Lydia Craig. ( There is a joint episode on ...

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76:51

George Silverman's Explanation (Audiobook): Read by...

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2025/05/12

Dominic reads George Silverman's Explanation - one of Dickens' rarer short stories - ahead of an upcoming discussion with Dr. Emily Middleton ... Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Series Artwork: Léna Gibert Original Music: Dominic Gerrard Thank you for listening!

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6:33

Pickwick's Legacy ...

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2025/04/22

Here are two fragments that didn't make the cut in the previous episode on THE PICKWICK PAPERS ... Prof. Hugo Bowles talks about the afterlife of Pickwick & Gina Beck reads an extract where Pickwick is observed from a window by a Scientific Gentleman! Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Series Artwork: Léna Gib...

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48:39

THE PICKWICK PAPERS 📚 : with Hugo Bowles

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2025/04/21

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Prof. Hugo Bowles who is currently working the OUP edition of The Pickwick Papers to guide us through this riot of a novel - if it is a novel? Hugo is an alumnus of both Oxford and Cambridge where he read English, Classics and Applied Linguistics. For over three decades he lectured at four Italian Universities and is the author of Dickens and Stenographic Mind (published by Edinburgh University Press). We last caught up with Hugo in his joint ep...

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32:49

A Tour of 48 Doughty Street: with Jordan Evans-Hill

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2025/02/07

Send us a text Today’s episode is A Tale of Two Podcasts where Dominic teams up with Jordan Evans-Hill: creator and host of the Charles Dickens Museum’s Inimitable podcast. Here Jordan takes the listener on a tour inside number 48 Doughty St - the house where Dickens lived and worked as he completed Pickwick, wrote the entirety of Oliver Twist & Nicholas Nickleby and began Barnaby Rudge … Jordan is a former footman from the Royal Household where he served the late Queen Elizabeth II. He i...

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A Jane Austen Year ...

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2025/01/10

Send us a textDominic 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 ...

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52:35

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

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2024/12/28

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 !!!Support the showIf you like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrardHost: Dominic GerrardSeries Artwork: Léna GibertOriginal Music: Support the showIf you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of prod...

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54:58

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

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2024/12/24

It’s Christmas Eve, and Dominic takes a deep dive with you all through A Christmas Carol. Returning to the series is the inimitable Prof. John Bowen (who recently worked on David Edgar’s Carol adaptation for the RSC) and who like many of us, re-reads this ghostly little book every Christmas and has pondered its power and meaning for decades.The Carol Philosophy that Dickens expresses so generously in this story is truly universal: everyone has a chance to change and not be fixed, or branded, ...

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4:34

'What Brutal Hand …?': with Lydia Craig

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2024/12/24

*This episode focuses on the theme of domestic violence* Dominic shares a bonus fragment from his last interview with Dr. Lydia Craig on The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain ...It is a moment in the story where Redlaw comes across ‘a woman sitting on the stairs, either asleep or forlorn’ and ‘whose head’ is ‘bent down on her hands and knees.’ Redlaw sees that her arms are ‘black, her face cut, and her bosom bruised.’It’s a deeply powerful, moment in the story, that reveals Dickens’ compass...

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53:59

THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN 📚 : with...

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2024/12/13

Todays episode is on Dickens’ final Christmas Book The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A deeply powerful story, where the chemist, Stephen Redlaw is offered the chance to forget all his painful memories by a Phantom who is a ghastly copy of himself drawn from the shadows in his study. Redlaw accepts the ghost’s bargain … but then faces a desperate struggle to have this spell lifted again, when to his horror he discovers that his new gift has a 'King Midas' quality of infecting everyone h...

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48:14

The Christmas Illustrations: with Lucinda Hawksley

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2024/12/07

This episode marks the 3rd birthday of Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥 In this first Christmas episode for 2024 Dominic is joined again by the critically acclaimed author, broadcaster, and art-historian Lucinda Hawksley. And as they return to Dickens’ Christmas books their focus this time is on the illustrations found in each of them.Many of you will of course be familiar with the name of John Leech, who’s images for A Christmas Carol are now inseparable from Scrooge’s story, a...

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CHRISTMAS IS COMING !!! ☃️🎩⛓️🎄👻

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2024/11/30

Welcome to CHRISTMAS at Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥The very first of our special Festive will go live shortly ...And If you’re new to this series, there are some incredible episodes already waiting for you to listen to. Interviews with leading actors, academics, writers, historians, and descendants of the great man him self!Guests such as: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Rosie Holt, John Mullan, Lucinda Hawksley, Robert Douglas Fairhurst, Andrew Davies & Alice

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50:48

The Gordon Riots: with Ian Haywood

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2024/06/04

Dominic is joined today by the inimitable Professor Ian Haywood, of the Centre for Inclusive Humanities at the University of Roehampton. Together they delve into the astonishing 'Riots of Eighty' that gripped London for a week and were brought thrillingly to life in Dickens' Barnaby Rudge ...Ian is a specialist in the radical politics and visual culture of the period of 1750-1850, and has published extensively on that period in books such as Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and The Po...

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40:34

DROOD ...📚 And Our Endless Attempts To End It: with...

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2024/05/15

Dominic is joined again by the inimitable Dr. Pete Orford for Part II of his examination of The Mystery of Edwin Drood ... Pete’s book Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens’ Unfinished Novel And Our Endless Attempts To End It … (Pen & Sword books) is our guide throughout. It is a hugely entertaining read where scholarly citations and tomfoolery combine with vibrant illustrations by Alys Jones … there is a link purchase this in the description.And reading extracts today, it is an honour to welcome ...

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36:18

Mrs Dickens: with Emily Howes

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2024/04/11

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