I was invited onto the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 to talk about the impending closure of the Charles Dickens Museum, in the year of his bicentenary. You can listen to it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9680000/9680653.stm adobe acrobat download zp8497586rq
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If you’re studying Dickens with the Open University, new podcasts are soon going to be available to you. I really enjoyed meeting the lovely Eve yesterday, who has been interviewing several Dickens experts and will be getting the podcasts of our interviews ready to download in the next few months.
I was interviewed this week by Robin Gibson from BBC South East. We had a great time in Rochester talking about Charles Dickens. It will be shown on TV during the week of 7th February (the date of Dickens’ 200th birthday). cheap software downloads oem 765qwerty765
Tickets are now on sale for my events at Highgate Cemetery, I’m talking about Lizzie Siddal on 11 February. Booking has to be done?é in advance by email only: ?é [email protected]. The same email address can be used to book tickets for my talk on the Dickens family at Highgate on 13 February.
I was thrilled to receive the Wilkie Collins Society newsletter which contains a glowing review of my book by none other than BBC Radio 4’s Paul Lewis (of Money Box fame). He describes it as “the most unusual of the bicentenary offerings … a brilliant collection of pictures, play programmes, letters and manuscripts reproduced with … Read more
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The Dickens Bicentenary year has begun at last – many years of preparation have gone into organising the celebration and the Dickens 2012 website provides information about events all over the world. To find out about talks I’ll be giving to commemorate 200 years since Charles Dickens’ birth, click on my Speaking Engagements page.
In February, I shall be marking two very important occasions at Highgate Cemetery, both talks are to raise funds for the cemetery’s upkeep, so please do come along and support them. On 11 February, it will be exactly 150 years since the death of Lizzie Siddal, who is buried at Highgate, so come along to … Read more