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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years

Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations

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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Geraldine McEwan, Alison Steadman, Andrew Scott, Kenneth Cranham, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Robert Lindsay, Full Cast, Indira Varma
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Enthralling radio dramatisations of eight of Charles Dickens' much-loved novels.

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this second digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes eight of his classic novels.

This collection includes the epic masterpiece David Copperfield, described by Dickens as his ‘favourite child’; suspenseful mystery Bleak House; Dickens’ most openly political novel, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, a sweeping tale of imprisonment, poverty and riches. Also included are A Tale of Two Cities, set during the French Revolution; coming-of-age novel Great Expectations; sweeping satire of wealth and corruption Our Mutual Friend and Dickens’ final, unfinished story The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

With a star cast including Robert Glenister, Robert Lindsay, Honeysuckle Weeks, Kenneth Cranham, Sir Ian McKellen, Alison Steadman, Geraldine McEwan, Andrew Scott and Ian Holm, these radio adaptations bring Dickens’ imaginative world to colourful, captivating life.

Track listing:
1-20: David Copperfield
21-25: Bleak House
26-29: Hard Times
30-34: Little Dorrit
35-39: A Tale of Two Cities
40-45: Great Expectations
46-65: Our Mutual Friend
66-70: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Chapter one of Great Expectations on this is episode two. The narrator actually states at the beginning episode two so we come into the book after all the major players have already been introduced. We miss Pip's early family life ,his meeting with Magwich, his meeting with Miss Havisham. In fact if you don't already know the story it's a waste of time

Great Expectations Ruined

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All the adaptations are really superbly done, extremely enjoyable and a great access point for Dickens. The indexing ous non existent but dont let this put you off, the performances far outweigh any minor index niggles.

Superb

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The BBC are unparalleled in creating the finest radio drama in the world, of that there can be no doubt. These are excellent dramatisations of classic Dickens’ novels, absolutely compelling listening. My only qualm? There must surely have been end titles giving the names of the characters and actors playing them, director(s), incidental music etc. It is a shame that these have been omitted from this collection - a disservice to some wonderful performances.

Some end titles might be nice

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BBC’s creative dramatizations of Dickens. Useful to enhance the enjoyment of Dickens in addition to listening to unabridged reading.

Excellent and enjoyable

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Bliss for ears over a couple days listening
The cast reading are professional, all our best actors who enjoy the words
Warm witty clever
Dickens words acted beautifully

Absolute ear candy

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