Dickens Confidential

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Drama series imagining Charles Dickens as editor of a new campaigning weekly, The Herald,.

Before finding fame as a novelist, Charles Dickens was, for a time, a newspaper editor. This drama series imagines how Dickens would have tackled bringing the news to the masses.

Dickens Confidential: Series 1: Foundry

Foundry

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Charles Dickens asks Jack to investigate the death of a young boy at an iron foundry.

Charles Dickens asks Jack to investigate the death of a young boy at an iron foundry for his campaigning newspaper The Herald, but the story feels uncomfortably close to home.

Episode Five - Foundry 
Written by Mike Walker 

Charles Dickens asks Jack to investigate the death of a young boy at an iron foundry. But the story feels uncomfortably close to home for Dickens and he begins to question his motives. Is he an editor or a novelist? And, of course, he is still completely unaware of just how involved Agnes is with uncovering stories for the paper. Will it stay that way? 

Dickens ..... Jamie Glover 
Jack ..... Freddy White 
Agnes ..... Jasmine Hyde 
Mr Fell ..... Jonathan Keeble 
Widow ..... Charlie Brooks 
Billy ..... Harry Eden 
Joseph Paxton ..... .John Dougall 
Factory Owner ..... Sam Dale 

Produced & Directed by Tracey Neale 
Executive Producer - Alison Hindell

Dickens Confidential: Series 1

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Series imagining Charles Dickens as a campaigning newspaper editor. Stars Jamie Glover.

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