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  1. Great Expectations (2012)

    Director
    Mike Newell
    Producer
    Elizabeth Karlsen
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £17.99

    Mike Newell’s adaptation of Dickens’ novel stars Helena Bonham-Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch.

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  2. Dissolution of the Monasteries, The 2 (1981 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Professor A G Dickens discusses the religious and political background to the Dissolution and shows how the great wealth of the Church was seen by ThomasCromwell as the answer to the financial needs of the...

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  3. Charles Dickens’s England (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 290 minutes), £17.99

    In CHARLES DICKENS’S ENGLAND , Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The DVD features...

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  4. Bleak House (2006)

    Director
    Susanna White; Justin Chadwick
    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £24.99

    A faithful television dadaptation with a contemporary edge. At its heart is the story of the icily beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn, who seeks to uncover...

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  5. Signalman, The (2003)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 39 minutes), £15.99

    An adaptation by Andrew Davies of the short story by Charles Dickens, shown in 1976 as the sixth programme in the BBC’s annual GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS series. Strange things are being seen and heard by a...

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  6. Hard Times (1977)

    Director
    John Irvin
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £14.99

    This critically acclaimed, BAFTA-winning Granada Television adaptation of Hard Times, directed by John Irvin and dramatised by playwright Arthur Hopcraft features an impressive cast; Timothy West is...

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  7. Oliver Twist (1999) (2001)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 386 minutes), £19.99

    This 1999 television adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Victorian classic was originally broadcast in 4 parts. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale, this version of Oliver Twist spends much of the first 90 minutes...

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  8. Great Authors: Charles Dickens (2003)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 510 minutes (3 discs)), £29.99

    A 3-part DVD set exploring the life, times and work of Charles Dickens, using a mixture of drama and dramatised documentary from the BBC archives. His is a fascinating story - from rags to riches, complete...

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  9. Narrative (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Umberto Eco suggests that all novels are a sort of detective story. To test the theory, argues Graham Martin, it is necessary to understand how a narrative works. A dramatised example of a scene from Chapter...

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  10. Dickens Before Sound (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

    This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

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