Dickens is a 2002 three-part docudrama presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based. An unorthodox style is taken: actors play various individuals in Dickens' life (as well ...

2013-06-30T18:27:59-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fc7/20130630183047002_hd.jpgPeter Slen interviewed Peter Ackroyd in London about English writers and the ...

Simon Callow will return to the West End this autumn for a limited run of Peter Ackroyd's The Mystery of Charles Dickens. Following his turn as William Shakespeare in Being Shakespeare at Trafalgar ...

Stepping into the shoes of the most English of great English novelists, Callow takes the audience through the well-worn streets of Victorian England making stops at crucially painful and illuminating ...

Where lies the soul of a city? Peter Ackroyd, the indefatigable chronicler of London, has always found it in the inherited store of legends, horrors, triumphs and prejudices that reverberate through ...