Podcast Episodes

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 📚: with Leon Litvack

Dominic is joined by Dr. Leon Litvack whose new edition of Our Mutual Friend for Oxford University Press will be published in November

Leon is a reader at Queen’s University Belfast, and is an expert …

Published on 3 months ago

Vincent Van Gogh: with Carol Jacobi

Vincent Van Gogh was an avid reader of Dickens. Throughout his life Dickens' works provided not only a mental 'scaffold' that helped him to believe in his own mission as an artist, but also pull hims…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Verse of Charles Dickens: with Lydia Craig & Emily Middleton

Dickens' genius as a novelist is acknowledged the world over ... but what was he like as a poet?

Joining Dominic today to find out are the inimitable Dr. Lydia Craig & Dr. Emily Middleton who have jus…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

(Encore!) BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry

Ahead of a new series Dominic re-shares the most popular episode of this show so far! Bleak House with the inimitable Stephen Fry who takes the listener on an intricate journey through the fog and my…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION 📚: with Emily Middleton

Hot on the heels of Dominic's audiobook of George Silverman's Explanation comes the discussion with Dr. Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) … who we’ve met before in the episodes on Oliver Twist and The …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

George Silverman's Explanation (Audiobook): Read by Dominic Gerrard

Dominic reads George Silverman's Explanation - one of Dickens' rarer short stories - ahead of an upcoming discussion with Dr. Emily Middleton ...

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Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Pickwick's Legacy ...

Here are two fragments that didn't make the cut in the previous episode on THE PICKWICK PAPERS ...

Prof. Hugo Bowles talks about the afterlife of Pickwick & Gina Beck reads an extract where Pickwick i…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

THE PICKWICK PAPERS 📚 : with Hugo Bowles

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Prof. Hugo Bowles who is currently working the OUP edition of The Pickwick Papers  to guide us through this riot of a novel - if it is a novel? 

Hugo is an alumnus …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

A Tour of 48 Doughty Street: with Jordan Evans-Hill

Today’s episode is A Tale of Two Podcasts where Dominic teams up with Jordan Evans-Hill: creator and host of the Charles Dickens Museum’s Inimitable podcast.

Here Jordan takes the listener on a tour i…

Published on 9 months ago

A Jane Austen Year ...

Dominic has helped create a sister podcast to mark the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen's birth!

A Jane Austen Year is told by the people that work at Jane Austen’s House - the idyllic Hampshire cotta…

Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago