Anton Lesser stars as Dickens and Geoffrey Palmer plays William Makepeace Thackery. Part 1: SECRETS - with Kenneth Cranham as John Forster (Dickens’ friend and biographer), Timothy West and Prunella Scales as Dickens’ parents and Miriam Margolyes as the writer’s wife. The programme was broadcast in 3 weekly parts on BBC2, beginning on under the title DICKENS.
Actors playing the parts of Dickens’ family members and friends are ‘interviewed’ during the programme. Visits the key locations in Kent and the capital which inspired him. Using a mixture of documentary and dramatic reconstruction it recreates the author’s extraordinary life, blurring the lines between Dickens’ fiction and his own experiences and also between drama and biography. Sections Title Uncovering the real Dickens Synopsis UNCOVERING THE REAL DICKENS, presented by Peter Ackroyd, resembles the plot of one of Dickens’ own novels. Language English Country Great Britain Year of release 2003 Year of production 2003 Documentation 'Dickens’ by Peter Ackroyd (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990) Subjects Literature Keywords biographies Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) literature - English television drama docudrama Distribution Formats Type DVD Format Region 2 PAL Price £29.99 Availability Sale Duration/Size 510 minutes (3 discs) Year 2003
This DVD set demonstrates how much Dickens drew upon his own experiences in his fiction. His is a fascinating story - from rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, forced child labour and fame and fortune, overshadowed by guilt and secrecy, yet there is much about his life that remains unknown. Synopsis 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.
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