Pip is an orphan, brought up by his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. One evening, while visiting his parents' graves, he has a shocking encounter with an escaped convict...

‘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...

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...

‘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...

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

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...

A doctor is sitting by his fire one evening when his peace is disturbed by a visitor: a tall woman, dressed in mourning and wearing a thick black veil. It is clear that she is in distress, and she...

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...

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.

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...

Philip Pirrip –or ‘Pip’ – has ‘great expectations’. An orphan, brought up in a small village on the Essex marshes by his sharp-tongued sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the gentle...

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...

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...

To Paul Dombey, business and money are everything. He runs his family as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his little son, while his...

"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...