Charles Dickens is the UK's most prominent writer since Shakespeare and the literary voice of Victorian England. His characters are universally well known while his style of writing came to define the episodic cliff-hanger. Over 250 different film and television adaptations have been made of these stories - 34 in the last 10 years. In Charles Dickens' England Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The film features Cooling Church in Kent used by the... author in the opening chapter of Great Expectations; Miss Havisham's house in Rochester; the almost forgotten London Roman Baths used by David Copperfield; Joe Gargey's cottage in Chalk the notorious Bowes Academy the harshest of the Yorkshire schools and now known to the world as Dotheboys Hall. From Portsmouth to Isle of Wight to numerous London locations to Bury St Edmonds from Rochester and Chatham to Broadstairs to Folkestone to Barnard Castle to St George's Hall in Liverpool well over 100 locations are featured. Many of the locations such as 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields where Dickens first read in public the All The Year Round offices in Covent Garden where he lived and worked and Gad''s Hill in Kent the last in a very long list of his homes are not open to the public and their interiors have rarely been filmed. [show more]
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Derek Jacobi presents this documentary exploring the towns, villages and rural locations where novelist Charles Dickens lived and worked, and looking at how he went on to use these places in his novels and stories.
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