New Charles dickens Podcasts

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Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Ma...
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Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens’ works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style.
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No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their q...
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens

37 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The shortest novel by far of Charles Dickens', Hard Times is also one of his most idea based works. In it, he launches a scathing attack on the prevailing fashion of believing in Utilitarianism, a ...
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

53 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Set in the first half of the 19th century, the classic novel presents the story of young orphan Oliver Twist, who endures tumultuous events in a society burdened by poverty, crime and malice. After...
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

59 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
From the opening passage itself of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the reader is drawn into the world of the hero, Pip, who is at that time, seven years old. The author creates an unforgetta...
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

65 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Charles Dickens is one of the most appreciated Victorian writers, his novels gaining worldwide recognition by both critics and readers. First published in 1850, David Copperfield begins with avid t...
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens

68 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Over twenty consecutive months, Charles Dickens enthralled readers with his monthly installments of the novel Bleak House, a complex and compelling portrayal of the English judicial system. Seriali...
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Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

68 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
As the last published novel of a writer whose career spanned over a dozen novels, innumerable short stories, plays and nonfiction, Our Mutual Friend is indeed a great composition by Charles Dickens...
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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

72 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
Originally published in monthly installments between 1855 and 1857, the novel focuses on the various forms of imprisonment, both physical and psychological, while also concentrating on dysfunctiona...
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Charles Dickens: Celebrity Author - Audio

10 episodes - Latest episode: about 12 years ago - ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Charles Dickens was not only the most famous writer of his day, but, during the second half of his career, also a prominent public figure known through his readings and speeches. He cultivated, and...
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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations - for iBooks

1 episode - Latest episode: almost 13 years ago - ★ - 2 ratings
This unit considers some of the different ways of reading Great Expectations, based on the type of genre the book belongs to. This is one of the most familiar and fundamental ways of approaching li...