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The real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors' prison
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The real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors' prison
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48 minutes
Released:
Nov 28, 2008
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Podcast episode
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David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens' fiction - what were Victorian debtors' prisons really like and how accurate was Dickens' portrayal of them?
Released:
Nov 28, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode
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