DickensBlazing Away

Directed by Mary Downes

S1 • E2 May 18, 2002 59m

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Amid the brutality of industrialised England, Dickens used his fame to change society. But his private life was troubled.

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Cast of Blazing Away

Peter AckroydSelf — Presenter
Anton LesserCharles Dickens
Miriam MargolyesCatherine Dickens
Kenneth CranhamJohn Forster
Helen McCroryKate Dickens
Geoffrey PalmerThackeray
Jack DavenportCharley Dickens
Lucy DavenportMary Hogarth
Rachel SwannYoung Catherine
Peter MairPanto Dame
Harry DitsonAmerican Journalist
Sonia RitterFormer Prostitute
Sophie DuvalActress
Mary DownesDirector

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