Charles Dickens documentary 

Finally, 50 years after being forced to read Great Expectations, I am thoroughly enjoying reading his work. I am currently on Oliver Twist.

Anytime I want to escape the madness of American society - I turn to Charles Dickens never fails .

My Mother told me that my great grandfather, John Davis heard Charles Dickens in The Leather Bottle, Cobham. He lived in Rochester, before going into the Workhouse. My late husband trained in the dockyard at Sheerness then transferring to the dockyard at Chatham. Thank you for this video.

Being a Londoner myself, Dickens has always been one of my very favourite authors. Thank you for posting this.

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.„ _Charles Dickens

Wonderfully done documentary. Thank you

Thank you for a fascinating documentary….

I like the introductory music, thank you. These looks at history and how people thought, is quite interesting.

Exquiste narration….. poignant images…. thank you for posting. Miss jenny

I have read all of Charles Dickens and am getting ready to start an old, illustrated book of his: Dombey and Sons. His books are remarkable. If you compare his writing to Stephen King’s output you will know why Harold Bloom loved Dickens and never read King who he called a modern penny-dreadful writer. Dickens is amazing and everyone would enjoy reading him although the modern reader may have to read longer and more focused. This documentary is enjoyable! Thanks

That debtors prison must have been hideous. It would mark any child. Such a well told story of one of my favorite writers. I knew so little about him, thank you for this excellent video. The Hograth family seems worth a story of their own.

thanks enjoyed v much

These documentaries are truly capital and exemplary work! 😲 Beautifully narrated and profoundly well researched, I discovered several facts not known to me as a Dickens life long admirer. My sincere thanks and God bless you sir 😊

One day, when returning from France on June 19th 1865. All of Charles Dickens's Railway Nightmares came true, until he was involved in a terrific train crash accident at Staplehurst in Kent. Ten people died in the accident. The accident would prop Dickens to write his finest Ghost Story called The Signalman.

Great account of Dickens... Thanks

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Thank you a wonderful story and photographs of the man and his times.

i really enjoyed this thanks

great work

Great documentary, walking in the great author's footsteps. I love Dickens.

Fantastic presentation...titles of accompanying background music, please...

Love this documentary.

Thank you for this documentary. It is was so beautifully narrated. I believe Charles Dickens was also very in interested in magic and would give performances of magic to children on a Sunday afternoon l happen to have one of his magic programs we here he produced shiny sixpenies from a Christmas pudding. I have enjoyed all of his books, his characters are so vital and filled with curiousity. Thank you once again

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. December 19th 1843.

I have always been SO SORRY that he hadn't finished " The Mystery of Edwin Drood"!

Pickwick Papers was popular serial. Inspired Louisa May Alcott and me.

Mr. Dickens is perhaps my favorite author.

Robert Peel (1788-1850) was the Founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force at Scotland Yard in 1829.

I lived on the same street that Charles Dickens lived as a kid! Bayham Street in Camden, London. I lived across the street from where he grew up. It has since been demolished and council housing is now in its place. I found this out at the local library. I was astonished. 😮 I went to the George Inn and Pub in Southwark for my birthday celebrations too! I'm a massive CD fan in case you haven't guessed by now.😜

As part of your project have you considered sharing the huge dictionary of literary biography? Some are uploaded, but most not!

Very good video so no comment it's sharp and to the point good voice and pleased😄 to hear Dickens is immortal words reverberation is still hunting the memory of evry reader and the trader. That's all great man he was let him rest in peace sky

What's that music in the background?

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 28:32

I have often wondered why so many Dickens characters have bizarre and comic names, even if the story is not comic. I like them, and it makes them memorable, but I have never been able to find any kind of literary explanation of why Dickens does this. It's surely one of the most recognisable aspects of his style.

There's Another Charles Dickens Documentary I think you should upload made by the BBC maybe in 2002 or 2003 named Dickens or named uncovering the real Charles Dickens presented by Peter Ackroyd, Starring Anton Lesser as Charles Dickens, and Miriam Margolyes as Catherine Dickens.

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Interesting.

Regin of Queen Victoria 1837-1901.

The greatest britain has ever had

Shiver my timbers 🎉 3:29 Stay Safe Stay Safe and Stay Free 4:02 ❤

How many of his books have you read? Mine are 1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Great Expectations 3. David Copperfield 4. A Christmas Carol 5. Nicholas Nickleby

Time were hard Charles Dickens reciting 10 years old and I believe in placed procedure Charles Dickens did not go to school. The City of London of big ships and Saint Pauls Cathedral dominates everything for ship building and the old father Thames and pity for thee debtors Prison and remembering works The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations.

Sir Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) best known for as His Grace The 1st Duke of Wellington. Became a Prime Minister in 1828.

Bad piano... goodbye 😢

Now Do H. G. Wells!!!

Oliver Twist. David Copperfield.

He stipulated in his will that upon his death, his horses should be shot. They were. I have hated his work ever since!

Means nothing to me about my life... Didn't then and doesn't now...

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I LOVED DICKENS' WRITING ESPECIALLY "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" I MUST HAVE READ THIS STORY 500 TIMES AND WATCHED MOVIES AND AUDIOBOOKS THE SAME. BUT LOST A GREAT AMOUNT OF RESPECT WHEN I FOUND OUT HE BELIEVED OUR (CANADIAN) INUIT ATE FRANKLIN'S CREW WITHOUT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE. BUT FOUND IT ALL LIES WHEN HIS TWO SHIPS WERE FOUND!!!!

Also see The Dickens Museum ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AGzrkfqUSY.html

Is that Dikkens with two k’s, the noted Dutch author?

Love this subject but this dialogue was boringly slow so didnt finish

A 'Charles Dickens documentary' with no mention of 'A Christmas Carol' is a bloody joke. why?????

The Lifestyle of the Victorian Policeman was particularly harsh and the pay was poor.

This film is informative but glosses over the treatment of his wife and his duplicity regarding his affair... talk's cheap Charles! Action is what counts...but he was some writer.!!

This is dull.

The Zulu Dickens is of course indignant that-- solely because of White Privilege-- the works of the Zulu polymath remain unrecognised compared with Dickens' output.

Charles Dickens was not the original author of "A Christmas Carol." He didn't even improve it--he hurriedly watered down an existing manuscript for popular consumption, to avoid impending debt. Then he concocted a theatrical lie about supposedly writing it in a fit of inspiration, "walking the black streets of London many a night." The evidence can be found in my paper, entitled "Evidence That ‘A Christmas Carol’ Was Originally Written by Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier, Rather Than by Charles Dickens," which can be downloaded from the link below, or it can be found by searching on the paper's title on Academlia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol.pdf