THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES 📚: with Dr. Emily Bell

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Dr. Emily Bell who guides the listener through the rollercoaster that is Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins' Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices - a unique blend of travel writing and ghost stories seen through the eyes of the quintessentially British characters of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, who amusingly mirror their creators, Dickens and Collins
This eccentric collection contains within its pages two fantastic ghosts stories - The Dead Hand & The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber - and other dark flights of fancy that crash in on the everyday. It is a work full of both silliness and mystery and (in spite of its title) the action hardly ever gives in to any idleness ...
Reading the excerpts in this episode is the fantastic actor Adam Cunis

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Host: Dominic Gerrard
Series Artwork: Léna Gibert
Original Music: Dominic Gerrard
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Chapters

1. Dickens and Collins' "Lazy Tour" Analysis (00:00:00)

2. Mountain Adventure and Ghost Story (00:10:32)

3. Ghost Stories and Literary Conventions (00:14:59)

4. Ghostly Tale of Good Child (00:24:58)

5. Analysis of Dickens' Haunting Tale (00:31:00)

6. Examining Dickens and Collins Collaboration (00:38:53)

7. Ghost Story Fun and Biographical Resonances (00:50:20)