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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! 🔥

Three MORE Dickensian Christmases! Read by Rebecca Tanwen, Tom Andrews & Chris Nayak

December 20, 2025 • Dominic Gerrard

Dominic takes three more Dickensian Christmas Readings from the archives:

The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain & The Holly-Tree

Read by Rebecca Tanwen, Tom Andrews and Chris Nayak

HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!

These readings were first published separately in December 2023

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

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