The reason being that she was once a ward of court herself, explains Pauline Collins ... to adapt Bleak House in half-hour episodes is such a brilliant, brave idea. Dickens wrote in bite-size ...

Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “ Bleak House ,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v.

Bleak House is regarded as one of Charles Dickens' best achievements - the ... Miss Flite (Pauline Collins) with her tragic/comic mix of eccentricity and insight; the eccentric, and often drunk ...

Alun Armstrong, Johnny Vegas, Nathaniel Parker, Pauline Collins, Alistair McGowan ... On 7th February 2005, Charles Dickens' birthday, we began filming Bleak House at Balls Park, a large empty ...

A fire has badly damaged part of Charles Dickens' historic Kent home. About 40 firefighters were called to Bleak House, in Broadstairs, at around 2130 BST on Sunday. The fire service said the fire ...

you couldn’t do better than to turn or return to Charles Dickens’s massive, panoramic, blistering, delectable 1852 novel ‘Bleak House.’ The court case drags on and on and on. A resolution ...

A fire that damaged part of Charles Dickens' Kent home was an accident caused by discarded smoking materials, fire teams said on Monday. About 40 firefighters were called to Bleak House in Broadstairs ...

Martin Daunton examines Dickens' brilliant evocation of Victorian social conditions in Bleak House, and gives a historian's view of the story. Page 1 of 5 Charles Dickens was no stranger to the ...

A character in Charles Dickens' Bleak House burns to death without any apparent reason. Human spontaneous combustion is a belief which has been around for centuries but does it really exist? Viewers ...

Walking into the wrong lecture theatre at the University of York in the spring of 1974, I found myself listening to a dramatised reading of Dickens’s Bleak House by a bearded lecturer who took ...