The Charles Dickens Collection

Across the years BBC Television has consistently looked to the works of Charles Dickens for intelligent, colourful, accessible and popular drama. Dickens' novels are ideal for television adaptation, his writing has a great theatrical and visual quality; his stories (written as episodes with their own cliff-hangers) are full of humour, drama and emotion and his characters are three-dimensional and exude personality. The adaptations in this set feature some of the nation's greatest actors including Michael Hordern, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Eric Porter, Miriam Margolyes, John Le Mesurier, John Mills, Cherie Lunghi, Ian McKellen, Charlotte Rampling, Paul Scofield and many more. The series were all broadcast to great critical and popular acclaim and have since taken their place as a valued part of our television heritage.

Special Features

Bonus Tracks: Additional 30 minutes of original music composed by Rob Lane; Additional 30 minutes of original music composed by Adrian Johnston., Documentaries: 'The Making of 'David Copperfield''

Actors: Joan Sims, Amanda Ryan, Keith Allen, Nigel Stock, Vivien Merchant, Philip Franks, Sally Osborne, Oliver Milburn, Maggie Steed, Ralph Michael, Justine Waddell, Pauline Quirke, Stephen Yardley, Dawn French, David Garlick, Amanda Harris, Ioan Gruffudd, Imelda Staunton, Ian McKellen, Harry Lloyd, Phil Daniels, Thelma Barlow, John Mills, Paul Whitehouse, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Trevor Eve, Ben Walden, Bernard Lee, Paul Scofield, Bob Hoskins, Tom Wilkinson, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Nicholas, Julia Sawalha, Clive Swift, Pete Postlethwaite, Ben Rodska, Alan Parnaby, Maggie Smith, Michael Hordern, Paul Shelley, John Le Mesurier, Cherie Lunghi, Bernard Hill, Ciarán McMenamin, Judy Parfitt, Emilia Fox, Michael Elphick, Michael Attwell, Zoë Wanamaker, Alun Armstrong, Steve Nicolson, Eric Porter, Patrick Malahide, Elizabeth Spriggs

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 1975 minutes

Number of Discs: 12

Subtitle Languages: English

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