Turn to chapter five of Charles Dickens' Hard Times to find out. Reading Time: 2 minutes. Why you can trust SCMP. James Kidd. Published: 12:00am, 3 Feb 2013Updated: 4:39pm, 18 Feb 2013.

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 ...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times is very much a novel of its times, and yet page after page seems written as a direct commentary on our own. It's not Dickens' finest work, but it may be one of his most ...

DICKENS established a weekly periodical, called Household Words, on the 30th of March, 1850. On the 1st of April, 1851, he began in it the publication of the tale of Hard Times, which was ...

Charles Dickens: An article in Saturday’s Calendar about Charles Dickens misspelled the name of his “Hard Times” character Gradgrind as Grandgrind. As things get worse, then, Dickens looks ...

Among the other virtues of “Hard Times,” we are reminded how less can often be more. “Hard Times” runs through March 28 at City Center Stage II, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan; (212) 581 ...

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 ...