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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

By: Dominic Gerrard
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  • 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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    © 2024 Dominic Gerrard
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Episodes
  • Mrs Dickens: with Emily Howes

    Mrs Dickens: with Emily Howes
    Apr 11 2024
    Dominic is joined by the inimitable Emily Howes, author of The Painters Daughters, who is currently writing her second book, Mrs Dickens, all about the life of Catherine Hogarth and her marriage to Charles Dickens …

    Emily is an alumna of Cambridge University, where she was a member of the famous Footlights. After gaining a First in English, she studied Lecoq at the London School of Performing Arts. She then went on to create work for theatre, radio and television. Highlights including two series of her show The Ladies BBC Radio 4, and performing in Tim Minchin’s Rocking On for BBC Radio 2. Emily is also a recipient of the Hans Cohn Scholarship for the study of existential pyscotherapy …

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    If you like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard

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

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    36 mins
  • London Tide: with Ben Power

    London Tide: with Ben Power
    Apr 4 2024
    Dominic meets Ben Power backstage at London’s National Theatre who takes a break from rehearsals to talk about London Tide - an exciting new staging of Our Mutual Friend - which he has adapted with songs composed by the award-winning PJ Harvey

    Ben is a Tony Award winning, and a BAFTA & Olivier Award nominated writer for stage and screen, and an Associate here at the National. His adaptation of The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Sam Mendes, has become an international theatrical juggernaut, playing in London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. His screen credits include the BBC series The Hollow Crown and Netflix’s Munich: The Edge of War …

    London Tide runs from 10th April - 22nd June 2024. You can book tickets here


    Support the Show.

    If you like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard

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

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    30 mins
  • NEW EPISODES FOR 2024 !!! 🔥

    NEW EPISODES FOR 2024 !!! 🔥
    Mar 23 2024

    A new series of Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥 will launch on Friday 5th April ...

    The first episode takes place deep inside London’s Royal National Theatre, mid-rehearsal, for London Tide - an exciting new adaptation of Our Mutual Friend, co-written by Ben Power and PJ Harvey.


    Previous series guests include: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Lucinda Hawksley, Andrew Davies, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Alice Loxton, John Mullan and many many more …

    Support the Show.

    If you like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard

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

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    1 min
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