Dickens Confidential
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  • Published: 20 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787538344
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 42 min
  • Narrators: Dan Stevens, Jamie Glover, Jasmine Hyde
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Dickens Confidential

The Complete Series 1-2

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Charles Dickens was, for a time, editor of a daily newspaper. This series takes an imaginative look at how Dickens would have tackled bringing the news to the masses.

Charles Dickens was, for a time, editor of a daily newspaper. This series takes an imaginative look at how Dickens would have tackled bringing the news to the masses.

We follow Dickens the editor as he contends with railway crashes, gory deaths in the River Thames, have his editorial judgement scrutinised, work with tyrannical landowners, enter the murky worlds of opium and prostitution, and most tragically of all, investigate a child's death. In he and his newspaper tackles financial plotting, encountering a young - and very secretive - Disraeli, and the prospect of war overseas.

Originally broadcast in 2008 this complete BBC Radio collection stars Jamie Glover as Dickens in Series 1 and Dan Stevens as Dickens in Series 2. Also starring Jasmine Hyde, Eleanor Howell, Andrew Buchan, John Dougall, John Rowe and Gerard Murphy.

  • Published: 20 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787538344
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 42 min
  • Narrators: Dan Stevens, Jamie Glover, Jasmine Hyde
Categories:

About the author

Mike Walker

Mike Walker is an award-winning dramatist, documentary writer and author. He has adapted many classic novels for BBC Radio 4, including War and Peace, On the Beach and A Tale of Two Cities, which won him the Bronze Sony Award for Best Drama in 2012. Among his original radio plays are Alpha - winner of the Sony Drama Award (World Service); its companion play Omega; Landfall, The Product and the Plantagenet series of historical dramas. He has also written several novels, including one for young adults, Bad Company.

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Praise for Dickens Confidential

Loved it - twisty, turny and as brilliant as ever.

Jill Mansell

Emotional, twisty and a joy to read. It deserves to be a huge bestseller.

Mark Edwards

An absorbing read. Paula Daly has done it again!

Lesley Kara, author of THE RUMOUR

Superbly character-driven, with a sharp plot and a terrific sting in the tale.

Sunday Mirror

Gripping, with a killer twist.

My Weekly

I loved Clear My Name. It features two strong women, one in prison for murder, one working to reinvestigate the case. Add in secrets, lies, and family drama and it's an immediate page turner!

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