Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

← Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥7 Oct · 39 min

NO THOROUGHFARE 📚: with Emily Middleton

NO THOROUGHFARE 📚: with Emily Middleton7 Oct39 min

Dominic is joined by Dr Emily Middleton who returns to guide us through Dickens' final Christmas Number ... No Thoroughfare. Written in collobration with Wilkie Collins in the December of 1867 the story is preoccupied with pathways in life that are seemingly blocked or torn away from you: whether it’s a mother searching for her lost child; a young man desirous to marry but prevented by an over-protective guardian; or the sudden drop into a chasm that opens up as you traverse a mountain path i...