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| Afternoon Performance | ...A journey through British Film Music, as recorded by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Rumon Gamba. The selection includes music written for film dramatisations of novels by CHARLES DICKENS. Presented by Graeme Kay.... |
| Aled Jones With Good Morning Sunday | ...This week, Aled says Good Morning Sunday to children's author and storyteller Bob Hartman. Bob is best known for his dramatic adaptations of Bible stories, but his latest book is based on CHARLES DICKENS' classic A Christmas Carol. And during the festival of Channukah, Rabbi Pete Tobias discusses the week's news from a faith and ethics perspective and gives the Moment of Reflection.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...CHARLES DICKENS... |
| Audience With Grimaldi, An | ...The memoirs of the great Georgian clown, Joseph Grimaldi, as edited by CHARLES DICKENS. Adapted and performed by Tony Lidington in front of an audience at the Concert Artists' Association in LONDON.... |
| Bardell V. Pickwick | ...By: CHARLES DICKENS... |
| Big Toe Books | ...Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Includes Burn Gorman reading Oliver Twist by CHARLES DICKENS.... |
| Bleak House | ...By CHARLES DICKENS, dramatised in five parts by John Dryden. Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a contested inheritance, has been dragging through the Courts of Chancery for years, gradually grinding down its suitors. Into this mincing machine are thrown two young innocents, Ada and Richard. With Claire Price, Michael Kitchen and John Shrapnel. Director John Dryden.... |
| Bookcases | ...A four-part comedy series by Martin Wade set in a Victorian publishing house. 2: `Great Expectations'. Primus plans to save Spavin and Spavin from bankruptcy by becoming CHARLES DICKENS's new publisher. Cordelia has a surprise for Gerald. With Michael Cochrane and Elizabeth Spriggs. Director: Cherry Cookson.... |
| Bride's Chamber, The | ...Adapted by Michael Eaton from CHARLES DICKENS's The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Dickens has a ghostly experience while on a walking tour with Wilkie Collins.... |
| Cave Of Harmony, The | ...A play with music, by Neil Brand and Michael Eaton. It is CHRISTMAS 1863, and Thackeray receives a strange visitor who takes him on a journey back in time, to the raucous song-and-supper evenings at the Cave of Harmony, presided over by the irrepressible CHARLES DICKENS. With Roger Allam, Stephen Boxer, Alison Pettitt and Nickolas Grace. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer ... |
| Chimes, The | ...by CHARLES DICKENS. Dramatised by John Clifford. The Chimes, written just a year after Dickens' more famous A CHRISTMAS Carol, tells the story of Trotty Veck, a humble man who, on New Year's Eve, learns in an extraordinary way how important love and hope are to life. Sir Joseph / Mr Filer....Sean Chapman Trotty Veck....Ron Cook Richard / Mr Fish....Luke Jardine Alderman Cute / Doctor....Paul Jesson Meg Veck....Helen Longworth Lady Bowley / Mrs Tugby/ Lily....Isobel Middleton Will Fern / Mr Tugby....Nicholas Murchie CHARLES DICKENS....Sean Murray Young Lily....Martha Beynon-Gray Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane ... |
| Chosen For Christmas | ...Derek Jacobi reads `CHRISTMAS at Dingley Dell' from `The Pickwick Papers' by CHARLES DICKENS ... |
| Christmas At Dingley Dell | ...Mr Pickwick is summoned before the majesty of the law. Derek Jacobi reads from CHARLES DICKENS' The Pickwick Papers.... |
| Christmas Carol, A [drama] | ...Radio 2's adaptation of CHARLES DICKENS' famous Christmas story.... |
| Christmas Tree, A | ...This festive tale by CHARLES DICKENS is about looking into the tree, beyond the lights and baubles, and seeing many a curious thing. Read by Oliver Ford Davies.... |
| Cooking The Books | ...CHARLES DICKENS... |
| Cover Stories | ...CHARLES DICKENS... |
| Darkness And The Light, The | ...The first of two programmes exploring the light and dark sides of Victorian society through its literature. 1: Dark. Featuring readings from CHARLES DICKENS, John Ruskin, Henry Mayhew, an unknown pornographer and Jack the Ripper.... |
| David Copperfield | ...A ten-part dramatisation of the novel by CHARLES DICKENS.... |
| Devil's Christmas, The | ...By CHARLES DICKENS. The ghostly tale of a haunted railway tunnel.... |
| Dickens Confidential, Gangs Of London | ...Series of plays looking at how CHARLES DICKENS, as the head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the news to the masses.... |
| Dickens Confidential, The Man Who Robbed The Bank Of England | ...Series of plays looking at how CHARLES DICKENS, as the head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the news to the masses.... |
| Dickens Confidential, Why Are We In Afghanistan? | ...Series of plays looking at how CHARLES DICKENS, as the head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the news to the masses.... |
| Dickens Confidential | ...Series of plays looking at how CHARLES DICKENS, as the head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the news to the masses.... |
| Dombey And Son | ...Mike Walker's adaptation of CHARLES DICKENS's classic tale of family relationships.... |
| Eel Pie Island Hotel, The | ...Lead singer with Manfred Mann, Paul Jones, looks back at the colourful history of The Eel Pie Island Hotel in Twickenham. In the late 1800s, CHARLES DICKENS described the hotel as a 'place to dance to the music of the locomotive band'.... |
| Goon Show, The | ...The gang are in festive mood as CHARLES DICKENS' classic Christmas tale is re-hashed in their inimitable anarchic fashion by Messrs. Milligan, Sellers and Secombe.... |
| Great Expectations | ...Martyn Wade's adaptation of the novel by CHARLES DICKENS.... |
| Hard Times | ...By CHARLES DICKENS... |
| Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain, The | ...CHARLES DICKENS last Christmas story vividly portrays the character of Redlaw, a man tormented by his past.... |
| Havisham | ...In just a few sentences of `Great Expectations', CHARLES DICKENS sketches in the bare bones of a history for the character of Miss Havisham, the old woman who sits in a shuttered old house in her soiled bridal dress, as she has done since the day she was jilted many years before. Ronald Frame's play asks how she got to be in that state.... |
| Hermit Lucas | ...For the next 25 years, he never left the house but was happy to talk to those who passed by, ranging from complete strangers to the eminent CHARLES DICKENS.... |
| House To Let, A | ...by CHARLES DICKENS, Wilkie Collins & elizabeth gaskell... |
| I'll Be George | ...by Snoo Wilson George Sand was one of literature's freest spirits, and when she is evoked in present-day PARIS by an Australian tour guide the result is a bawdy fantasia of mother and daughter relationships. With Jane Lapotaire as Sand, and Simon Callow as an incarnated CHARLES DICKENS, the 19th century and 21st century collide in a turbulent and gritty morality tale. George Sand....Jane Lapotaire CHARLES DICKENS....Simon Callow Marge....Federay Holmes Marie Dorval....Jennie Stoller Solange....Jasmine Hyde Manceau....Jonathan Keeble Japanese/ Frenchman....Gordon Reid Directed by Ned Chaillet ... |
| Iron Road, The | ...In this programme, he considers its social impact, with the help of Pete Seeger, CHARLES DICKENS and some fried green tomatoes.... |
| Let The Rumpus Begin | ...Why illustrator George Cruikshank was a vicious satirist in his political sketches but a priggish moralist in his children's books. Why CHARLES DICKENS and his illustrator George Cruikshank had a bitter public row about the meaning of fairy tales.... |
| Letters To Father Christmas | ...An exploration of the origins of this famous Christmas tradition, with extracts from letters to Santa Claus by J R R Tolkein, CHARLES DICKENS and children.... |
| Little Dorrit | ...CHARLES DICKENS's masterpiece about prison life sees new and surprising discoveries about the Dorrit family.... |
| Little Nell | ...A new play by Simon Gray, inspired by Claire Tomalin's book The Invisible Woman, the story of Nelly Ternan and CHARLES DICKENS.... |
| Lord Berners (1883-1950) | ...Donald Macleod introduces Berners' fifth ballet, which was to be his final association with Frederick Ashton and Cecil Beaton, and the suite from his very last work - the score for the 1947 film of CHARLES DICKENS' Nicholas Nickleby.... |
| Making Of Modern Medicine, The | ...According to the Nursing Record, a typical nurse in the 1830s was like Sarah Gamp in CHARLES DICKENS' Martin Chuzzlewit - a domestic servant who was incompetent and rough with patients.... |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | ...CHARLES DICKENS' novel of greed and hypocrisy.... |
| Music Matters | ...The historic City Halls in Glasgow played host to the likes of Benjamin Disraeli, CHARLES DICKENS and William Gladstone. But the building has recently been undergoing a massive refurbishment updating the concert hall and becoming the new home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.... |
| My Alter Ego | ...Con Coughlin of The Daily Telegraph tells the colourful story of Victorian journalist George Augustus Sala, one of the best known writers of his day, whose career took off when CHARLES DICKENS spotted his talent and published his work in Household Words.... |
| Mystery Of Charles Dickens, The | ...The Mystery Of CHARLES DICKENS... |
| Mystery Of Edwin Drood, The | ...By CHARLES DICKENS.... |
| Nicholas Nickleby | ...Martha Kearney hosts interviews and discussions from a female perspective. Drama: `Nicholas Nickleby' by CHARLES DICKENS (1/30). / By CHARLES DICKENS, dramatised by Mike Walker. Following the death of his father, Nicholas is found a position as assistant to Wackford Squeers at Dotheboy's Hall in YORKshire. With Oliver Milburn and Richard Johnson. Director Jeremy Mortimer (1/30).... |
| Old Curiosity Shop, The | ...Mike Walker's dramatisation of CHARLES DICKENS's classic tale of Little Nell and her grandfather's struggle against the evil Quilp... |
| Oliver Twist | ...Reading of CHARLES DICKENS' Oliver Twist, a tale of treachery, tragedy and triumph over adversity. with David Warner.... |
| Opening Nights | ...Lionel Bart's adaptation of the CHARLES DICKENS story premiered in June 1960.... |
| Our Mutual Friend | ...Adaptation by Mike Walker of CHARLES DICKENS' classic novel.... |
| Penny Gaffs And Angel Places | ...By Mike Dorrell. October 1857: as problems in CHARLES DICKENS's marriage come to a head, he feels pressures mounting. One night, unable to SLEEP, he walks the 30 miles from his LONDON home to Gad's Hill, Kent, but still can't escape the voices in his head. With Richard Tate, Siobhan Redmond, Andrew Wincott and Alexandra Mathie. Directed by Alison Hindell... |
| Pickwick Papers, The [drama] | ...By CHARLES DICKENS, dramatised in six parts by Martyn Read.... |
| Pickwick Papers, The | ...by CHARLES DICKENS, and adapted for radio by Michael Eaton and starring Timothy Spall and Sue Johnstone.... |
| Reading Aloud | ...CHARLES DICKENS (Author)... |
| Scrooge Blues | ...Sequel to CHARLES DICKENS's classic tale by Nicholas McInerny. A year after his transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge has become the most generous man in London.... |
| Sketches By Boz | ...`The Tuggses at Ramsgate'. It seems that money cannot buy you love in the first of five comic stories from the pen of CHARLES DICKENS. With Nicholas Farrell as the voice of Boz. With Christopher Hancock, Frances Jeater and Colleen Prendergast. Director Sally Avens.... |
| Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton, The | ...By CHARLES DICKENS, read by Clive Francis. Gabriel Grubb, a surly grave-digger, is taken from the churchyard by goblins who want to teach him some valuable lessons about Christmas cheer.... |
| Sunday Half Hour's Christmas List | ...Roger Royle continues a special series reflecting on preparations for Christmas. This week, he talks to the children from CHARLES DICKENS Primary School.... |
| Tale Of Two Cities, A [reading] | ...By CHARLES DICKENS, abridged by Neville Teller and read by Ian McDiarmid.... |
| Victorian Interiors | ...In 1857, CHARLES DICKENS's marriage was in crisis... With Michael Kitchen, Emily Richard, Colleen Prendergast and Ann Beach. Written by Michael Butt. Director Penny Gold ... |
| Week Ending | ...1. Bakerlite Wireless 2. Antarctic WI Runner 3. Waddington Games 4. Indirect Inquiry 5. Gareth Hunt Drinks Instant Tea 6. Antarctic WI Runner 7. A Present From Israel 8. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones 9. Hearing Aids 10. Cormorants Are My Favourite Fruit 11. Antarctic WI Runner 12. Mild Currie 13. Cecil 14. Rail Lnk for Scots 15. Talking Timetable 16. Chunnel Piss Up In A Brewery 17. CHARLES DICKENS Might Be An Orange 18. The Meaning of Erm 19. The Numbers Game 20. Hubble Trouble, Seeing Double 21. Face It 22. Time Gentlmen... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...introduces some of her favourite pieces of prose and poetry. They include works by Virginia Woolf, W B Yeats, Anthony Powell and CHARLES DICKENS ... |
| Woman's Hour (summary) | ...By CHARLES DICKENS, adapted by Mike Walker.... |
| Words And Music | ...Fiona Shaw and Alex Jennings read a selection of poetry and prose on a sea theme from Elizabeth Bishop, Michael Longley, CHARLES DICKENS, John Masefield and Hugo Williams, with music inspired by the sea by Charles Trenet, Benjamin Britten, Mozart and Mendelssohn.... |
| Writing Music | ...In `The Old Curiosity Shop', CHARLES DICKENS indulges his passion for popular entertainment and music through the character of Dick Swiveller. Stead looks at Dickens's musical world with Tim Healey, Andrew Sanders and Paul Schlicke as they follow the tragic journey of Little Nell.... |