Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… The Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Introduction 20 Aug 202420 Aug 2024 Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 introduce our twenty-fifth and final read together: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last, unfinished novel. The green wrapper for…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Great Expectations and The Uncommercial Traveller: An Introduction 12 Mar 202411 Mar 2024 Wherein The Dickens Chronological reading Club 2022-24 Introduces Great Expectations and (the optional read) The Uncommercial Traveller, our twenty-second and twenty-third reads as a group. (Banner Image: By F.A. Fraser,…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… A Tale of Two Cities: An Introduction 2 Jan 20242 Jan 2024 Wherein the Dickens Chronological Reading Club (Jan 2022-Autumn 2024) introduces our twenty-first read, A Tale of Two Cities. (Banner Image: from the 1935 film starring Ronald Colman.) By Rach and…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 13-14 22 Dec 202320 Dec 2023 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 13 Mr. Dorrit is frightened to wake up and find that he's slept through the whole morning. Happily, Little Dorrit is there to comfort him.…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 10-12 21 Dec 202328 Dec 2023 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 10 This is one of the few Dickens stories to take place outside of England and I must say the miniseries takes advantage of the…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 7-9 20 Dec 202320 Dec 2023 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 7 This episode picks up right where the last one left off with Affery being locked out of Clennam and Co. Rigaud assists her by…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 4-6 19 Dec 20239 Oct 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 4 It's morning and John Chivery is getting himself spruced up to propose. I love that this adaptation includes his habit of fantasizing about inscriptions…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 1-3 18 Dec 20239 Aug 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster As with the recaps I did for the 2005 Bleak House miniseries, I'm going to go through each episode scene by scene and pretty much spoil…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 13-15 11 Aug 202317 Aug 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 13 Inspector Bucket asks Clamb if he saw a woman with a black fringed shawl outside Tulkinghorn's office the night of the murder. Clamb says…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 10-12 10 Aug 202317 Aug 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 10 This is the first episode to be directed by Susannah White rather than Justin Chadwick. I feel like I can kind of tell the…
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