Ever read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, (BBC radio serialisation being broadcast again)?

[grahamg]

I read David Copperfield for the first time forty years ago, and couldn't put it down, (said to have been the closest thing Charles Dickens penned to an autobiography).

There is a wonderful cast chosen by the BBC to narrate the story now being broadcast, (/rebroadcast).

They obviously have to changes the script a little to make it suitable for the radio, and of course the BBC many years ago produced a great many tv serialisations of many Dickens novels, and this is another great production.

In my schooldays we were expected to have read some of Dickens books, though the only one I attempted to read then was Oliver Twist, and I admit I didn't fully appreciate the brilliance of his work until later. I guess more recently produced books have replaced Dickens as advised reading in our schools, though I hope its still the case many children get introduced to them.

 

[chic]

Yes. I think I read all of Dickens' novels. His descriptive passages bogged me down at times, but the story plots were always good.

 

[grahamg]

Yes. I think I read all of Dickens' novels. His descriptive passages bogged me down at times, but the story plots were always good.

Did you find yourself emotionally carried away at the saddest sections?
Was it Little Dorrit ending up tragically, (or someone else the main character had fallen in love with, then lost?)?

 

[chic]

Did you find yourself emotionally carried away at the saddest sections?
Was it Little Dorrit ending up tragically, (or someone else the main character had fallen in love with, then lost?)?

No, I was never carried away but I feel bad for old Ebenezer Scrooge when he meets his ex fiance and also when he sees the errors of his ways and begins to make people happy. That did bring me to tears. Dickens was a darned good writer and have enjoyed all of the books of his that I have read.

 

[Tish]

Yes, I read it in English Lit at university.

 

[grahamg]

Did you find yourself emotionally carried away at the saddest sections?
Was it Little Dorrit ending up tragically, (or someone else the main character had fallen in love with, then lost?)?

It was Dora Spenlow who David Copperfield fell for then she tragically died, (and "Little Dorrit" is the tile of another of his books, and she is a lead character whose life has many obstacles to face).

 

[grahamg]

The second episode has been broadcast on BBC radio, and the fellow student David Copperfield looks up to so much called Stearforth has been featuring, and is about to upset the applecart I think.