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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Dominic Gerrard

98 episodes

1 week ago

Dominic shares an excerpt from his upcoming audiobook of A Christmas Carol which will be released in the New Year ... MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! This content is not available for AI training or scraping. All rights reserved. Recording and Artwork owned by Dominic Gerrard Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Series Artwork:...

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Dominic shares an excerpt from his upcoming audiobook of A Christmas Carol which will be released in the New Year ... MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! This content is not available for AI training or scraping. All rights reserved. Recording and Artwork owned by Dominic Gerrard Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Series Artwork:...

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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

"Master Humphrey's Christmas": Read by Dominic Gerrard

Dominic reads a quietly enchanting festive episode from “Master Humphrey’s Clock” by Charles Dickens. Master Humphrey is wandering the snowy streets, one 25th December, and casually walks into a tavern. A decision that will change his life forever ... A MERRY CHRISTMAS to all you listeners, wherever in the world you are! Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicge...

1 week ago

13 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

CHRISTMAS IS COMING !!! ☃️🎩⛓️🎄👻

Welcome to CHRISTMAS at Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥 The very first of our special Festive will go live shortly ... And If you’re new to this series, there are some incredible episodes already waiting for you to listen to. Interviews with leading actors, academics, writers, historians, and descendants of the great man him self! Guests such as: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Rosie Holt, John Mullan, Lucinda Hawksley, Robert Douglas Fairhurst, Andrew Davies & Alic...

2 weeks ago

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

What Matters in Jane Austen & Charles Dickens? : with John Mullan

Dominic is joined by returning guest, the inimitable Professor John Mullan: author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (now released in a 250th Birthday Edition) and The Artful Dickens - both published by Bloomsbury Press In a lively chat, John sheds light on the tricks, devices and styles of these two incredible writers: Jane Austen and Charles Dickens ... And in case you haven’t heard John's previous conversation on Great Expectations we thoroughly recommend you scroll back to Episode 5 of this...

3 weeks ago

41 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

The Cock Lane Ghost: with Emma Clery

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Prof. Emma Clery - author of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800 and Professor of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. They continue this month’s theme of the supernatural, taking you on a journey into the heart of an event that caused a sensation in Georgian London, and would inspire Dickens decades later … The real life story of The Cock Lane Ghost set the stage for an earnest debate between Anglicans and Methodists - the former skepti...

4 weeks ago

47 minutes

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TO BE READ AT DUSK 📚: with Emily Middleton

The ghostly episodes continue as Dominic welcomes back the inimitable Dr. Emily Middleton who helps piece together the scattered psychological fragments that create Dickens' To Be Read at Dusk ... Five couriers sit high up watching the sun set over snowy peaks of the St Bernard's Pass, their minds flitting from one strange unsettling anecdote to another. Ideas of premonition, mesmerism, and the powerful telepathy that can exist between twins, abound in this story ... Additional so...

1 month ago

29 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Headless Horsemen & Morphean Space: with Kirstin Mills

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Dr. Kirstin Mills Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Research & Graduate Diploma of Research in the Faculty of Arts, at Macquarie University. Kirstin's recent articles include the chapter "Morphean Space and the Metaphysics of Nightmare ..." published in Gothic Dreams and Nightmares for Manchester University Press. Their conversation flits and tumbles through the realms of 19th Century dreams and nightmares. Many of which are sure to ha...

1 month ago

38 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

The Lawyer and The Ghost: Read by Jonathan Broadbent

This Halloween ... actor Jonathan Broadbent reads one of the interpolated ghost stories, from The Pickwick Papers In The Lawyer and The Ghost a somewhat disreputable young Lawyer has retired to his meagre lodgings one night and is forced to debate with something not of this world ... Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! H...

1 month ago

7 minutes

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THE BLACK VEIL 📚: with Andrew Smith

This Halloween Dominic is joined by the inimitable Prof. Andrew Smith who guides us through Dickens' The Black Veil and his latest book Dickens and the Gothic (for Cambridge University Press) Perhaps calling to mind Susan Hill’s The Woman In Black … The Black Veil begins with a young man sitting by the fire one winter’s night, with cosy thoughts of Christmas. Out of the corner of his eye the veiled figure of a lady dressed in mourning appears, standing motionless, with eyes f...

1 month ago

43 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!! 🎃

Dominic announces a new series of Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!🔥 and share some personal stories of haunting ... Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Series Artwork: Léna Gibert Original Music: Dominic Gerrard Thank you for listening!

1 month ago

5 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

The War of the Worlds: with Jeff Wayne

Dominic now to Jeff Wayne about the creation of his masterpiece The Musical Version of The War of the Worlds ... At time of recording this multiplatinum album has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and is currently running as an Immersive Experience in London. It features searing performances from Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott as the crazed Parson Nathaniel, and David Essex’s swaggering and delusional Artilleryman, with Julie Covington as Beth bringing real humanity into their performance. Whil...

3 months ago

42 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Two Cities: with Jeff Wayne

Dominic speaks to the award-winning composer Jeff Wayne about Two Cities (his Musical adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities) that opened at the Palace Theatre, in London's West End, on 27th February 1969 Despite a run of just 44 performances, Two Cities was Nominated for Best Musical at the Evening Standard Awards - with its star Edward Woodward also winning the Best Male Performance for a Musical category for his portrayal of Sydney Carton. Audiences and critics alike also praised Elizabeth Pow...

3 months ago

22 minutes

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PICTURES FROM ITALY 📚: with Pete Orford

In the July of 1844 Dickens, his wife Catherine, their five children, his sister-in-law Georgina - plus three servants and their dog Timber - left London for Italy. What followed was an extraordinary adventure for them all. Returning to the series to talk to Dominic about his new Oxford University Press edition of Pictures From Italy is the inimitable Dr. Pete Orford also returning to read excerpts from the book is the brilliant actor Tom Andrews ... The recording Vivaldi's Four Seasons has b...

4 months ago

37 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

The Manuscript at Staplehurst: with Leon Litvack

Bonus Episode! In which Dr. Leon Litvack recounts Dickens' dramatic retrieval of Part 16 of the Manuscript of Our Mutual Friend from the swaying carriage at Staplehurst; and reveals, here for the first time, a key discovery he has made; plus the cut sections he has restored in his new Oxford University Press Edition of the novel ... Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.c...

4 months ago

17 minutes

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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 📚: with Leon Litvack

Dominic is joined by Dr. Leon Litvack who's new edition of Our Mutual Friend for Oxford University Press will be published in November Leon is a reader at Queen’s University Belfast, and is an expert analyst of Dickens’ letters, manuscripts & handwriting. As well as being the Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project he sits on the Advisory Council for the UK’s National Records and Archives and is a board member of the Charles Dickens Museum … And returning to the series to read exc...

4 months ago

44 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Vincent Van Gogh: with Carol Jacobi

Vincent Van Gogh was an avid reader of Dickens. Throughout his life Dickens' works provided not only a mental 'scaffold' that helped him to believe in his own mission as an artist, but also pull himself out of deep depressions ... Here to talk to Dominic today about the powerful connection between Dickens and Van Gogh is the inimitable Carol Jacobi, Curator of British Art (1850-1915) at Tate Britain where her many exhibitions included the celebrated Van Gogh in Britain … Here are links to pai...

4 months ago

40 minutes

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The Verse of Charles Dickens: with Lydia Craig & Emily Middleton

Dickens' genius as a novelist is acknowledged the world over ... but what was he like as a poet? Joining Dominic today to find out are the inimitable Dr. Lydia Craig & Dr. Emily Middleton who have just co-authored The Verse of Charles Dickens (Edinburgh University Press) Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Seri...

4 months ago

38 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

(Encore!) BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry

Ahead of a new series Dominic re-shares the most popular episode of this show so far! Bleak House with the inimitable Stephen Fry who takes the listener on an intricate journey through the fog and mystery of Dickens' thrilling masterpiece. And reading extracts from Esther's narrative is the brilliant Sally Scott And here is a link to Miriam Margolyes' unabridged audiobook of Bleak House mentioned in the episode Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of...

5 months ago

49 minutes

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GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION 📚: with Emily Middleton

Hot on the heels of Dominic's audiobook of George Silverman's Explanation comes the discussion with Dr. Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) … who we’ve met before in the episodes on Oliver Twist and The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices … Emily is working on George Silverman, and other rarer Dickens stories for Oxford University Press, and has just published The Verse of Charles of Dickens for Edinburgh University Press which she has co-authored with Dr Lydia Craig. ( There is a joint episode on ...

7 months ago

42 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

George Silverman's Explanation (Audiobook): Read by Dominic Gerrard

Dominic reads George Silverman's Explanation - one of Dickens' rarer short stories - ahead of an upcoming discussion with Dr. Emily Middleton ... Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Series Artwork: Léna Gibert Original Music: Dominic Gerrard Thank you for listening!

7 months ago

1 hour 16 minutes

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Pickwick's Legacy ...

Here are two fragments that didn't make the cut in the previous episode on THE PICKWICK PAPERS ... Prof. Hugo Bowles talks about the afterlife of Pickwick & Gina Beck reads an extract where Pickwick is observed from a window by a Scientific Gentleman! Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrard Thank you so much! Host: Dominic Gerrard Series Artwork: Léna Gib...

7 months ago

6 minutes