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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Part 1
Episode 31
Published at the height of his powers in 1860, Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’ penultimate novel, and one of his very greatest. Its characters…
9 months ago
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - Part 2
Episode 30
In the second of the episodes on Jane Eyre, Rupert and Charlie take a look at some of the main characters in the book. The behaviour of Mr Rochester …
9 months, 1 week ago
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - Part 1
Episode 29
Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte's most famous book and one of the most celebrated, controversial and loved novels ever written. Millions who have never…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Episode 28
In 1816, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was staying on the shores of Lake Geneva with his young wife Mary, and his friends Lord Byron and John Polidor…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
Episode 27
Small Things Like These is a short novel by the Irish writer Claire Keegan. It tells the story of Bill Furlong, a coal merchant in a small provincial…
10 months ago
Christmas Poems
Episode 26
Charlie and Rupert look at three great poems associated with Christmas - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti, a section from In Memoriam by …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
Episode 25
The tale of the miserable Ebeneezer Scrooge, and how he came to find humanity, generosity and love, is probably the most famous Christmas story ever …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Poets: Philip Larkin
Episode 24
Philip Larkin wrote some of the greatest poetry in English in the second half of the twentieth century. Brilliant, famous and successful, he chose to…
11 months, 1 week ago
Poets: Sylvia Plath
Episode 23
Sylvia Plath was an American from a prosperous middle class background whose life was changed for ever when she met Ted Hughes at a party in London. …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The BIG Scale
Episode 22
Book In introduces the Books in Greatness Scale - or BIGS. Charlie has developed a method of ranking books according to their greatness, with each be…
11 months, 3 weeks ago