Charles Dickens
On my radar: Lauren Laverne’s cultural highlights
The TV and radio presenter on a surprising history of menswear design at the V&A, classic Billy Connolly routines and her favourite London venue
Lauren Laverne
18, Jun, 2022 @2:00 PM
Bleak Expectations review – Radio 4’s Dickens parody bursts on to the stage
This fast-paced comedy mashup of the great Victorian novelist sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness
Arifa Akbar
05, Jun, 2022 @11:50 AM
Top 10 novels about inheritance
From Dickens and Du Maurier to Henry James and Shirley Jackson, where there’s a will, there are generally the makings of a great story …
Cressida Connolly
25, May, 2022 @4:56 PM
Dodger: the Oliver Twist prequel that’s scary, starry and totally irresistible TV
This Dickens spin-off claps along like The Goonies and is so ace it’s been promoted from CBBC to BBC One. No wonder Christopher Eccleston and Julian Barratt were lining up to star
Stuart Heritage
05, Apr, 2022 @3:29 PM
How Dickens’ Pickwick comic serial brought his fans together
Museum exhibit reveals the huge effect the The Pickwick Papers had on readers
Vanessa Thorpe
13, Mar, 2022 @6:45 AM
Madeline Miller: ‘Reading Ayn Rand was like being dipped in slime’
The author of The Song of Achilles on discovering TS Eliot, her childhood love of James Herriot and the subversive genius of Chinua Achebe
Madeline Miller
11, Mar, 2022 @10:00 AM
Digested week: Greater expectations for BBC drama, but not Nigel Farage
The GB News man had a hot take for us, while adaptations of the same old Dickens leave me cold
John Crace
25, Feb, 2022 @1:31 PM
Lost Dog: A Tale of Two Cities review – the best of times
Ben Duke directs a triumphant theatre-dance interpretation of the Dickens classic that offsets complexity with out-loud laughs
Lyndsey Winship
24, Feb, 2022 @11:30 AM
Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did
The writer’s archaic shorthand has baffled experts for over a century. So they launched a deciphering competition for fans – with stunning results that cast new light on his love life and financial peril
Simon Usborne
07, Feb, 2022 @6:00 AM
Oliver Twist given new spin in BBC prequel to Charles Dickens novel
Exclusive: Spin-off based on Artful Dodger and crime-lord Fagin brings food poverty to fore
Tara Conlan
02, Feb, 2022 @3:01 PM
Rare photo of Charles Dickens sporting ‘glorious’ moustache goes on show
Daguerreotype profile shows an unfamiliar face to modern readers but delighted the author, who found the whiskers ‘charming, charming’
Alison Flood
21, Jan, 2022 @3:48 PM
A Christmas Carol is not cosy, and its angry message should still haunt us
Dickens’s novella has become a festive staple but it was intended as a polemic about the treatment of the poor
Robyn Vinter
28, Dec, 2021 @9:00 AM
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