Charles Dickens: A Life

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Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin: 4. Theatre

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A theatrical performance changes the course of Dickens's life.

Already a hard working writer, Dickens finds a theatrical performance changes the course of his life. Read by Penelope Wilton.

An exploration of how a theatrical performance changed the course of life for Charles Dickens. 

Claire Tomalin's acclaimed biography of Britain's great novelist paints a portrait of an extraordinarily complex man.

Tomalin portrays Dickens as a complex man, a writer who created characters who continue to endure in the popular imagination from the The Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip and David Copperfield.

He was also a ferociously hard-working writer, a philanthropist, a supporter of liberal social causes, and father of ten, and yet his genius also had a dark side.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton.

Read by Penelope Wilton.

Producer:  Elizabeth Allard 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2011.

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