Hard Times is the first in a series of Dickens novels adapted for Radio 4 - Print Collector/Hulton Archive Tuppence Middleton and Joseph Quinnstarred in the 2015 BBC production - Liam Daniel ...

In Hard Times, Dickens addresses himself to “utilitarian economists, skeletons of schoolmasters, Commissioners of Fact, genteel and used-up infidels, gabblers of many little dog’s-eared creeds.” ...

BBC Radio 4 is embarking on a new season of Dickens dramas, starting with Hard Times on Sunday 29th September. David Morrissey plays Thomas Gradgrind, the wealthy school superintendent-cum ...

Hard Times. One of the first authors to write of the dangers of materialism in contemporary society, Dickens’ Hard Times extols the power of the human spirit amidst the rise of shallowness, ...

Hard Times - Episode 2 Opening Lines In the second of two episodes introducing Charles Dickens’ 1854 novel Hard Times, John Yorke takes a look at his opposing themes of the classroom and the circus.

Dickens' satire of a target-driven society that stifles art, wonder and imagination. ... Hard Times: Episode 2. See all episodes from Dickensian Broadcast. Sun 29 Sep 2024 15:00.

It’s a story as old as time, or industrialization, which may be why the English title of the trilogy’s second entry, “Youth (Hard Times),” evokes Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel set in a ...