Listen "Why Dickens Endures"
Episode Synopsis
John Gray gives his own theory for the cultural longevity of Charles Dickens, celebrating his view of life as a theatre of the absurd. "Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them: unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves."Producer: Sheila Cook.
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