Episode 1
Secrets
2002-05-11 • 58 min
An exploration of how the writer's early years shaped his life and work.
TV season
2002-05-11
An unorthodox look at the life of Charles Dickens: actors play various individuals in his life (as well as the man 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.
Episode 1
2002-05-11 • 58 min
An exploration of how the writer's early years shaped his life and work.
Episode 2
2002-05-18 • 59 min
Amid the brutality of industrialised England, Dickens used his fame to change society. But his private life was troubled.
Episode 3
2002-05-25 • 59 min
Dickens creates his greatest works in the last decade of his life. But success comes at a price as he embarks on a complex double life.