Charles Dickens - a life reflected in his own writings, the words of his family and friends, and the characters who people his novels. A seven-part series compiled by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with 1: A Very Queer Small Boy
'When my thoughts go back, now to that slow agony of my youth, when I tread the old ground. I do not wonder that I seem to see and pity going on before me, an innocent romantic boy, making his imaginative world out of such strange experiences and sordid things.'
David Copperfield
Narrator PAUL DANEMAN
Other parts played by ARNOLD DIAMOND. RICHARD PEARCE
STEPHEN RASHBROOK. EMILY RICHARD and STEPHEN TOMPKINSON
Researcher MELISSA BAKEWELL
Directed by ROSEMARY HART. Stereo