Olivia Colman to star in BBC adaptation of Great Expectations
The series will also be executive produced by the team which was behind the BBC’s 2019 adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – Knight, actor Tom Hardy,…
Dodger, review: a boisterous and amusing drama that will get the kids into Dickens
Things move at a rattling pace – accentuated by a spoons on saucepans soundtrack – before the pair even get started on the road south. There’s a…
Think North Kent is a charmless dump? Don’t be so sniffy!
The sniffy attitude some people take towards north Kent disappoints me. The Medway towns are seen as down-at-heel and lacking charm, which is nonsense. The area is…
David Copperfield could have been Charles Dickens’ tribute to electricity breakthrough scientists
On August 29 1831, Faraday wrapped copper wire around an iron ring and after passing an electric current through. It showed that it not only produced a…
Gyles Brandreth: how Charles Dickens made me a man
Charles Dickens shaped my life. That sounds like hyperbole. It isn’t. The spirit of Dickens informed my childhood (and not just at Christmas) and his career as…
A Christmas Carol, review: Stephen Mangan is an entertaining grump as a Scrooge with daddy issues
It can certainly be said of the Old Vic that they know how to do Christmas. Matthew Warchus’s Dickensian charmer, returning for a fifth year, is an…