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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥
@DickensFire
A New Podcast celebrating the Life & Works of Charles Dickens! Hosted by actor @dominicgerrard Listen here: 🎙🎩📚
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✨TODAY’S EPISODE ✨
The inimitable #StephenFry guides us through the fog and mystery of Dickens’ Bleak House … 🔥
Listen to his extraordinary interview here: https://t.co/bi6UfQaBBr
#BleakHouse #CharlesDickens #ABrainOnFire #SpontaneousCombustion #EstherSummerson #Jarndyce
I’m delighted to have been invited to speak @uniofleicester Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series! Join next Weds 25th Feb 5.15pm GMT (in person/online) for a free talk on ‘Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle’ and Victorian Bodies: https://t.co/rP7z8HPXZt 🦠 📕
Thanks to a wonderful @DickensFire podcast we have today been reminded that Vincent Van Gogh was inspired by Luke Fildes’ painting of Charles Dickens’ empty chair here at Gad’s Hill.
Van Gogh was deeply inspired and comforted by Dickens’ works throughout his all too short life.
@gadshillplace The connection is amazing isnt it!! 🪑
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Ian Dickens
@readthesky
Past President of the Dickens Fellowship. A great great grandson of Charles Dickens. Retired marketeer. Writer. Artist. Sailor. Photographer.
Dr Lucy Whitehead - also 🦋
@DrLucyWhitehead
@LeverhulmeTrust ECF on modern British manuscripts & the American archive @RHULEnglish | Dickens & life-writing | On BBC Radio 3 https://t.co/2U47QXzbsX
Literary Britain
@literarybritain
Adventures in the literary landscape. A guide to places with literary associations: houses, pubs, churches, libraries, bookshops and literary museums.
It's US publication day for The Worlds of Jane Austen! Ranging from Jane's racy granny all the way down to the most recent adaptations and Austen-adjacent shows like Bridgerton, it's been hailed as 'a gem', 'a treasure-trove', 'a true delight' and 'a treat for fans'.
These Two Episodes were fun to record!
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✨STAGING DICKENS & H.G. WELLS !!! ✨
Acclaimed composer Jeff Wayne talks to @DickensFire about his West End show TWO CITIES & his iconic album THE WAR OF THE WORLDS ...
Listen (on Apple, Spotify etc)
https://t.co/HECnQqbfeY
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#WarOfTheWorlds #DickensPodcast #WestEnd
Really fun episode from my favorite podcast @DickensFire
✨DICKENS ABROAD!✨
In this @dickensfire episode the inimable @DrPeteOrford leads us through Dickens' dizzying Grand Tour as he speaks about his research for the new @OUPAcademic edition of PICTURES FROM ITALY 📚🇮🇹
https://t.co/upNR3CdrdY
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✨DICKENS ABROAD!✨
In this @dickensfire episode the inimable @DrPeteOrford leads us through Dickens' dizzying Grand Tour as he speaks about his research for the new @OUPAcademic edition of PICTURES FROM ITALY 📚🇮🇹
https://t.co/upNR3CdrdY
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✨TWO EPISODES✨
With the inimitable Dr. Leon Litvack @DickensLetters on his new @OUPAcademic edition of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND ... which restores sections that had to be cut from the original publication!
Listen here (on Apple, Spotify etc)
https://t.co/JsMi0gQNQX
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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire -- Our Principal Editor, Leon Litvack, talks with Dominic Gerrard about Our Mutual Friend and Dickens Letters:
https://t.co/iaJGTVQ5rE
Vincent Self-portrait (Public Domain Wikipedia)
✨LATEST EPISODE✨
Vincent Van Gogh was a HUGE fan of Dickens - both creatively & psychologically! Knowing this makes you see his paintings even more powerfully.
The inimitable @caroljjacobi curator at @Tate shows us how:
https://t.co/VtBqgdKJe2
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Until midnight on Thursday @Waterstones are offering 25% off online and in-app pre-orders on hundreds of brilliant forthcoming books, including The Worlds of Jane Austen! Just add SUMMER25 at the checkout.
@FelicityBryan @quarto_pub
Dickens - one of the greatest novelists of all time - wrote some truly TERRIBLE poetry. It is very entertaining to read though!👇🏻
✨NEW EPISODE✨
A hugely entertaining appraisal of Dicken's poetry with the inimitable @lydiaecraig & @EJLMiddleton on their new book THE VERSE OF CHARLES DICKENS @EdinburghUP 🔍✍️
Listen here (on Apple, Spotify etc): https://t.co/5dsBqTTqSi
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@DickensFire
✨NEW EPISODE✨
A hugely entertaining appraisal of Dicken's poetry with the inimitable @lydiaecraig & @EJLMiddleton on their new book THE VERSE OF CHARLES DICKENS @EdinburghUP 🔍✍️
Listen here (on Apple, Spotify etc): https://t.co/5dsBqTTqSi
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@DickensFire
✨TODAY'S EPISODE✨
Hot on the heels of this week's audiobook ... the inimitable Dr. Emily Middleton returns for a discussion with @dominicgerrard on George Silverman's Explanation, which she is editing for @OUPAcademic
https://t.co/KEnlliwKQj
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Thrilled to release this audiobook today! Dickens attacking poverty, psychological abuse and religious control …
Listen for free on @DickensFire podcast or purchase on Apple Books (and other platforms)
✨TODAY’S EPISODE✨
@dominicgerrard reads George Silverman’s Explanation … 1st published in @TheAtlantic (1868)
A deeply powerful indictment against poverty & religious control as you will find in anything else Dickens ever wrote
With stunning cover art by Lena Gibert
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