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Dickens

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7.0·2002·1 Season

Dickens is a 2002 three-part docudrama presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based. An unorthodox style is taken: actors pl...

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Episodes (3)

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Peter Ackroyd

Self — Presenter

Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser

Charles Dickens

Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Catherine Dickens

Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham

John Forster

Helen McCrory

Helen McCrory

Kate Dickens

Geoffrey Palmer

Geoffrey Palmer

Thackeray

OVERVIEW

Dickens is a 2002 three-part docudrama presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based. An unorthodox style is taken: actors play various individuals in Dickens' life (as well as Dickens himself), interviewed as if appearing in a contemporary documentary. Their words are from actual letters and journals of the individuals involved, and serve to illuminate the hardships and successes in Dickens' life, and the way his experiences found their way into his works.