BBC Heralds Charles Dickens Bicentenary Celebrations with Season of TV And Radio Programming

From November 28 to February 2012, the BBC will celebrate the work of one of Britain’s greatest writers with Dickens on the BBC, a season of documentary, drama and discussion programs across television and radio. How People Arrived Here: celebrations...

Gillian Anderson to Play Miss Havisham in PBS/BBC Production of Great Expectations

Gillian Anderson will star in the iconic role of Miss Havisham in a bold new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. The cast of the star-studded MASTERPIECE on PBS/BBC coproduction also includes David Suchet (Poirot) and Ray Winstone...

Laura Flanders’ Armistice Metaphor

As I continue to read each piece of economic news as if it were a dispatch from the front lines of the War Against the Poor, whose objective seems to be the banishment of those below the poverty line from the virtual world of financial practices in...

Little Dorrit: Cast Announced for Major BBC One Dickens’ Adaptation

Following a long tradition of quality programming BBC Drama Production has announced the key cast for Little Dorrit, Andrew Davies’ major adaptation of Dickens’ novel to be broadcast on BBC One this autumn.

Churchill Was Work of Fiction Say One Fifth of British Teenagers

A poll commissioned by a British TV station has revealed that a fifth of British teenagers believe the country’s WWII leader Winston Churchill to be a mythical figure, UK TV Gold said on Monday. The UK TV Gold poll of 3,000 teenagers also showed...