A Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection - Charles Dickens torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, Literature, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age Ghosts Industrial Revolution Legal Poverty Romance School Social Justice Victorian

Written by Charles Dickens
Read by Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Mixed
Dramatization

This is a sound quality upgrade for an older torrent, which I have now deleted. If you were seeding it, thank you, but feel free to stop now.

About half of my old BBC Dickens torrent was 64kbps 22.5kHz Audible quality. Now everything is either 44.1 or 48kHz with much higher bitrates. A fair number are now losslessly compiled from the highest quality BBC downloads.

The two exceptions are; The Pickwick Papers (1977) and Our Mutual Friend (1984) - These are mp3s I recorded nearly 20 years ago of dramatisations which are no longer repeated and are not available on audiobook. Back then the best quality source was digital radio broadcast as 160kbps MP2. They’re mushy, but perfectly listenable.

Thirty full-cast radio dramas and one unabridged reading.

1836 - Sketches by Boz - 1999 - 10 x 30mins

1837 - Christmas at Dingley Dell - 1993 - 90mins

1837 - The Pickwick Papers - 1977 - 8 x 60mins

1837 - The Pickwick Papers - 1997 - 6 x 30mins

1838 - Oliver Twist - 1994 - 6 x 30mins

1838 - Oliver Twist - 2013 - 10 x 15mins

1839 - Nicholas Nickleby - 1999 - 30 x 15mins

1841 - The Old Curiosity Shop - 2002 - 25 x 15mins

1841 - Barnaby Rudge - 2014 - 3 x 60mins

1843 - A Christmas Carol - 1965 - 60mins

1843 - A Christmas Carol read by Sean Baker - 2019 - 3hours 30mins

1844 - Martin Chuzzlewit - 1987 - 10 x 60mins

1848 - Dombey and Son - 2007 - 20 x 15mins

1850 - The Personal History of David Copperfield - 1991 - 10 x 60mins

1850 - David Copperfield - 2005 - 20 x 15mins

1852 - Bleak House - 1998 - 5 x 60mins

1854 - Hard Times - 2003 - 4 x 60mins

1854 - Hard Times - 2024 - 2 x 60mins

1857 - Little Dorrit - 2001 - 5 x 60mins

1857 - Little Dorrit - 2024 - 3 x 60mins

1858 - A House to Let - 2006 - 5 x 15mins

1859 - A Tale of Two Cities - 1989 - 13 x 30mins

1859 - A Tale of Two Cities - 2009 - 5 x 45mins

1861 - Great Expectations - 1991 - 6 x 60mins

1864 - Mrs Lirriper - 2007 - 3 x 60mins

1865 - Our Mutual Friend - 1984 - 10 x 60mins

1865 - Our Mutual Friend - 2009 - 20 x 15mins

1865 - Our Mutual Friend - 2024 - 3 x 60mins

1866 - The Signalman - 2022 - 60mins

1870 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (with an ending by Leon Garfield) - 1990 - 5 x 60mins

1870 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (with an ending by Mike Walker) - 2020 - 10 x 15mins