Reading from 'Dombey and Son,' by Charles Dickens
Tonight Mr. V. C. Clinton-Baddeley begins a series of eight twice-weekly readings from Dombey and Son. Dickens included Dombey in his own penny readings; he read from the early part of the book only, and his dramatic presentation of Toots is said to have been remarkable. Mr. Clinton-Baddeley's first two readings will be from passages Dickens himself chose, but for subsequent broadcasts he has chosen notable passages that will cover the whole of the novel.