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Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

De: Dominic Gerrard
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Actor Dominic Gerrard hosts an exciting new series that explores the Life and Times of Charles Dickens: his extraordinary novels, who he was as a person, his career as a performer, and his activism.
Guests include: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Alice Loxton, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lucinda Hawksley, John Mullan, Pen Vogler, Andrew Davies, Rosie Holt, Bernard Cornwell .... and many more academics, writers, actors, directors and descendants of the great man himself!
Along side these interviews there are special Dickens readings from across his works ...
Thank you for listening 🔥 © 2026 Dominic Gerrard
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  • NEW EPISODES for 2026 !!! 📚
    Feb 28 2026

    Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! will return in the summer ...

    In the meantime there are nearly 100 Episodes to enjoy with guests such as: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Andrew Davies, Alice Loxton, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lucinda Hawksley, John Bowen, John Mullan, Rosie Holt, Steven Knight …. And many more!

    And if you’d like to make a small donation to cover the costs of researching, recording and producing this series, wherever and whenever you listening to this you can follow the link below and buy a coffee! ☕️

    Also - if you feel these episodes have earned a five star rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ please consider scrolling down right now and added them there.

    With Best wishes,

    Dominic x

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    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

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    Host: Dominic Gerrard
    Series Artwork: Léna Gibert
    Original Music: Dominic Gerrard

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    2 m
  • Look Closer: with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
    Jan 31 2026

    Dominic welcomes back one of the most celebrated guests of this series Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ...

    Robert’s latest book Look Closer: How to get more out of reading (published by Penguin) is an invitation to all of us to go deeper into our reading, and find greater joy and meaning in the works of great writers from all ages and backgrounds. With examples from Dickens (of course!) but also George Eliot, Shakespeare, Margaret Attwood, Samuel Becket, Jane Austen and many more …

    Since they last spoke Robert has also published Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces : a deeply powerful biography of his life and career, set against the backdrop of shock diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in 2017.

    Here are links to purchase Robert's books:

    Look Closer: How to get more out of reading

    Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces

    The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World

    A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Books

    Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist













    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!

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    43 m
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol: with Meredith Braun
    Dec 24 2025

    This Christmas Eve ... Dominic is joined by the inimitable Meredith Braun, who played Scrooge's love interest Belle - opposite Michael Caine (and Fozziwig!) - in Brian Henson's The Muppet Christmas Carol ...

    Meredith shares her memories of filming the role, whilst simultaneously playing Eponine in the iconic West End production of Les Miserables ...

    A special thank you to Tim Hutton at Stage Door Records for allowing the use of the recording of When Love is Gone from Meredith's 2017 album of the same name ...

    When Love is Gone is available to purchase here at Stage Door Records or Amazon. It can also be streamed on Apple and Spotify

    HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!

    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!

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    43 m
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