What is it about Dickens? Chris Moyles dressed up as characters from Great Expectations 7.45am BBC Radio 4 Thought For The Day. In this, the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth, the Rt Rev Peter Torkiss, Bishop of Yoxford, reflects on the role of the civil par

Penguin Classics presents the audiobook adaptation of Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London. Read by Robert Hardy. PLEASE NOTE: This recording has been pulled from the Penguin Archives so the quality will not

MARTIN SHEEN'S portrayal of US President Josiah Bartlett in television drama The West Wing has been voted the fictional head of state people would most like to see take over from David Cameron to run Britain. To celebrate the release of The Iron Lady, wh

There are many of us who remember with affection the weekend television series All Creatures Great and Small. The series, which ran for 12 years from 1978, starred Christopher Timothy as country vet James Herriot who worked with fellow vets Siegfried (Ro

Just hearing the first few bars of the lilting theme tune of BBC drama All Creatures Great and Small is enough to take me back to cosy Sunday nights and a sudden fear that I haven't done my homework. All Creatures Great and Small – with its rolling field

The animator, producer and director Mark Hall created scores of programmes for British television. As half of Cosgrove Hall Productions, he worked alongside Brian Cosgrove from a converted warehouse in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, where they utilised