Audience with Charles Dickens, An

Synopsis: Simon Callow re-enacts the public readings given by Charles Dickens, reading extracts from five of the most popular Dickens novels. The readings aim for an accurate re-creation of Dickens’s style - costume and stage set are replicas, and Simon Callow works from the author’s own prompt scripts. The extracts are: 1) Sykes & Nancy; 2) Christmas Carol ; 3) Christmas Carol II; 4) Trial from Pickwick; 5) Dr. Marigold
Series: Charles Dickens Collection
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of production: 1996
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Notes: Broadcast on BBC 1 from 23/12/96 as 5, 25-minute episode
This was planned to be included in a DVD in 2004 , but never released
Subjects: English language and literature
Keywords: Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Fiction in English; literature - English; television drama

Title: Sykes and Nancy
Synopsis: The passages in ‘Oliver Twist’ describing the murder of Nancy and the death of Sykes.
Duration: 25 mins
Title: Christmas Carol I, A
Synopsis: Passages from ‘A Christmas Carol’ about Ebenezer Scrooge, who is confronted by the spirit of Christmas Past.
Duration: 25 mins
Title: Christmas Carol II, A
Synopsis: Passages from ‘A Christmas Carol’ about Ebenezer Scrooge, who is confronted by the spirit of Christmas Past.
Duration: 25 mins
Title: Trial from Pickwick, The
Synopsis: The breach-of-promise courtroom scene from ‘The Pickwick Papers’.
Duration: 25 mins
Title: Dr Marigold
Synopsis: A Christmas story that was immensely popular in the 1860s about the good-hearted cheap-jack Dr Marigold.
Duration: 25 mins

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