Loading page
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.
Seasons
Episode 1
Secrets
58m
An exploration of how the writer's early years shaped his life and work.
Episode 2
Blazing Away
59m
Amid the brutality of industrialised England, Dickens used his fame to change society. But his private life was troubled.
Episode 3Latest episode
Terror to the End
59m
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.
