Miriam Margolyes reads ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens.

Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to accept that Christmas is a time for peace and goodwill to all men. Whilst those less...

‘Hard Times’ is Dickens’s powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s... In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby he stigmatised the prevalent philosophy of...

Michael Kitchen stars as John Jarndyce in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens’ classic tale of London and the law.

When orphan Pip meets the escaped convict Magwitch in an overgrown churchyard on the Kent marshes, little does he know that the incident will change his life forever. Some years later, now...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens' famous novel, starring Pam Ferris, Adjoa Andoh and Tim McInnerny with Edward Long as Oliver.Born and brought up in the appalling deprivation of...

First published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848.Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships tells the story of Paul Dombey, head of...

Left penniless by the death of his father, nineteen-year-old Nicholas Nickleby seeks help, along with his mother and sister, from Uncle Ralph Nickleby. The hard-hearted money lender takes an...

David Copperfield is the story of a boy growing to maturity in the affairs of the world and of the heart, surrounded by some of Dickens' most memorable characters: David's eccentric great-aunt;...

‘Hard Times’ is Dickens’s powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s... In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby he stigmatised the prevalent philosophy of...

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as Dickens's 'masterpiece among masterpieces' for its social indictment and sense of humanity, Little Dorrit is both an examination of Victorian England and a...

John Harmon, in exile for many years, discovers that by a curious quirk in his father's will he must marry Bella Wilfer, a girl he has never met, in order to claim his inheritance. Mistakenly...

Robert Lindsay stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens.From the echo of the first line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’...

Peter Jeffrey, Norman Rodway, Trevor Peacock and Clive Francis play the delightful members of the Pickwick Club in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

Michael Kitchen stars as John Jarndyce in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens’ classic tale of London and the law.

First published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848.Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships tells the story of Paul Dombey, head of...

Helen Huntingdon flees a disastrous marriage and retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall. With her small son, Arthur, she adopts an assumed name and makes her living...

The work tells the story of Jane's early life, her experience at Lowood School and as a governess. Her refusal to accept Rochester's love on any but her own strictly moral terms is a passionate...

Even after the resounding triumph of ‘Jane Eyre’, Charlotte Brontë could persuade no one to publish ‘The Professor’, her first novel. This story of William Crimsworth, who goes to...

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of...

'Wuthering Heights', first published in 1847, is set amongst the wind-blasted moors known to Emily Brontë from her life at Haworth in Yorkshire, where her father was a clergyman. The dramatic...

The dramatic and sombre story of Wuthering Heights is dominated by Heathcliffe, a passionate and embittered soul, picked up as a gypsy waif by Mr Earnshaw and then reared in the bosom of his own...