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’...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" The opening words of Charles Dickens' great French Revolution romance set the scene for a heart-stopping historical adventure that dashes back...

Born and raised in the workhouse, orphan Oliver Twist’s life is miserable. When he is taken on as an apprentice by Mr Sowerby the undertaker, he hopes things will get better, but Sowerby’s...

‘Like all fathers,’ said Dickens, ‘I have a favourite child, and his name is David Copperfield.’ He is the favourite, too, of many listeners.

The story follows the trials and...

Sir David Jason reads Charles Dickens' magical, much-loved Christmas story. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, unpleasant man who dislikes people generally and Christmas especially. But one Christmas...

The case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has ground its way through the courts for generations. At its heart are Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, who find love - and terrible loss - through their...

Born and raised in the workhouse, orphan Oliver Twist’s life is miserable. When he is taken on as an apprentice by Mr Sowerby the undertaker, he hopes things will get better, but Sowerby’s...

Charles Dickens Classic Radio Dramas

‘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...