“The Battle of Life” (Excerpt): Read by Rebecca Tanwen

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

Happy 6th Day of Christmas! Today’s guest is the wonderful Rebecca Tanwen reading for us the opening pages of Dickens’ 4th Christmas book The Battle of Life …

The story opens with a wide shot of an ancient battle ground, where the traces of the fight have lingered through the centuries, not only in the earth but in the minds of the generations that have lived afterwards. The narrative works its way through a kind of time-lapse describing the changing seasons over many decades before settling on an orchard where amongst the apple-pickers two sisters - Grace & Marion - are found dancing along to a harp and fiddle with total abandon …
As a voice artist Rebecca won this year’s One Voice Award and previously the BBC’s Carleton Hobbs. Her theatre credits include Royal National Theatre production of Othello, As You Like It for the Oxford Shakespeare Company and Elephant 21 at the Royal Court. Her screen credits include The Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime and Lionsgate’s Nacho XXL ...

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Host: Dominic Gerrard
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Chapters

1. “The Battle of Life” (Excerpt): Read by Rebecca Tanwen (00:00:00)

2. Rebecca Tanwin Reads "The Battle of Life" (00:00:13)

3. Dancing in the Orchard (00:09:49)