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 ...
Thank you for listening 🔥
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 ...
Thank you for listening 🔥
Episodes
95 episodes
Look Closer: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Dominic welcomes back one of the most celebrated guests of this series Professo...
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43:28
The Muppet Christmas Carol: with Meredith Braun
This Christmas Eve ... Dominic is joined by the inimitable Meredith Braun, who played Scrooge's l...
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42:43
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part Two) 📚 : with John Bowen
Welcome to Part Two of Dominic and John Bowen's journey through A Christmas Carol ....
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52:41
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Part One) 📚 : with John Bowen
It’s Christmas Eve, and Dominic takes a deep dive with you all through A Christmas Carol. Returning to the series is the inimitable
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55:04
A Dickensian Christmas Dinner: with Pen Vogler
Dominic is joined by the wonderful award winning food historian Pen Vogler who returns to the podcast to talk about...
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40:47
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH 📚 : with Lydia Craig
Dominic is joined again by the inimitable Dr. Lydia Craig where they dive into Dickens' third Christmas Book, with...
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54:36
Christmas Carols: with Harry Christophers & The Sixteen
Dominic is joined by the inimitable Harry Christophers CBE , founder and conductor of The Sixteen, one of...
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52:32
‘What Brutal Hand …?': with Lydia Craig
*This episode focuses on the theme of domestic violence* Dominic shares a bonus fragment from his last interview with
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4:40
THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN 📚 : with Lydia Craig
Today’s 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 ghas...
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54:05
The Christmas Illustrations: with Lucinda Hawksley
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 t...
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48:20
A CHRISTMAS CAROL & Other Christmas Books 📚: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Dominic is joined again by the inimitable Professor Robert Douglas Fairhurst who returns to this s...
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Episode 23
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57:19
THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON 📚(Then Wrote a Carol & Rang A New Year In!) with Claire Wood
Dominic is joined by the wonderful Dr. Claire Wood again for a special Christmas episode on Charles Dickens' The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton; A Christmas Carol and The Chimes ...
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Episode 24
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Dickens' Carol Manuscript : with Philip Palmer
Dominic is joined by the inimitable Dr. Philip Palmer: Robert H. Taylor Curator & Depar...
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28:19
"Master Humphrey's Christmas": Read by Dominic Gerrard
Dominic reads a quietly enchanting festive episode from “Master Humphrey’s Clock” by Charles Dickens. Master Humphrey is wandering the snowy streets, o...
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14:02
The Lost Portrait: with Emma Rutherford
Dominic’s guest today is the inimitable Emma Rutherford who recalls her time working on the rediscovery of a lost portrait of Dickens, painted by Margaret Gillies in 1843, and lost for over a...
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40:00
What Matters in Jane Austen & Charles Dickens? : with John Mullan
Dominic is joined by returning guest, the inimitable Professor John Mullan: author of
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41:04
The Cock Lane Ghost: with Emma Clery
Dominic is joined by the inimitable Prof. Emma Clery - author of
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47:04
TO BE READ AT DUSK 📚: with Emily Middleton
The ghostly episodes continue as Dominic welcomes back the inimitable Dr....
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29:19
Headless Horsemen & Morphean Space: with Kirstin Mills
Dominic is joined by the inimitable Dr. Kirstin Mills Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Resea...
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38:03
The Lawyer and The Ghost: Read by Jonathan Broadbent
This Halloween ... actor Jonathan Broadbent reads one of the interpolated ghost stories, from The Pickwick Papers In The Lawyer a...
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7:52
THE BLACK VEIL 📚: with Andrew Smith
This Halloween Dominic is joined by the inimitable Prof. Andrew Smith
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43:41
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!! 🎃
Dominic announces a new series of Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!🔥 and share some personal stories of haunting ... ...
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5:12
The War of the Worlds: with Jeff Wayne
Dominic now to Jeff Wayne about the creation of his masterpiece The Musical Version of The War of...
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