Dickens
tv show
3 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired May 11, 2002
Genres:
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.
Cast
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Peter Ackroyd
as
Self — Presenter
Anton Lesser
as
Charles Dickens
Miriam Margolyes
as
Catherine Dickens
Kenneth Cranham
as
John Forster
Helen McCrory
as
Kate Dickens
Geoffrey Palmer
as
Thackeray
Jack Davenport
as
Charley Dickens
Natasha Little
as
Ellen Ternan
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Avril Ellis
as
Frances Ternan
Christopher Ettridge
as
John Byrne
Timothy West
as
John Dickens
Prunella Scales
as
Elizabeth Dickens