Susie Dent

Yeah, poetry.

But Dickens was a huge performer of his own works, wasn't he?

I mean, they said that it really damaged his health in the end.

I suppose they killed him.

Yeah.

To build psychs and things.

He gave so much sort of of himself.

Oh, wow.

At the end of his performances that he was warned not to do it by his doctors.

How interesting.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, yeah.

They're really good.

Have you seen The Great Christmas Feast, which is a brilliant performance that goes on every Christmas where they recreate Dickens reading A Christmas Feast to all of you who sit around in Dickensian clothes eating great Dickensian food.

It's brilliant.

But he definitely would have a Patreon, wouldn't he?

He was a one-man podcaster, really.

but is that amazing uk red highly recommend checking it out yeah that's so cool i find it quite interesting that um because there is a sort of silent shame about audiobooks these days isn't that you just sort of said i've read it technically yeah but it's a deep victorian tradition and i think i think this is brilliant i think we should be proud do you think it's if you read the audiobook you get as much out of it than if you read the actual words

If you listen to the audiobook, sometimes I would say it depends.

It depends so much on the narrator, doesn't it?