Charles Dickens - Hard Times - Audio Drama - MP3 - Slimoo torrent

Charles Dickens' - Hard Times - Audio Drama - BBC7 via DVB-T
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Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1853. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.


The novel is unusual in that it did not contain illustrations; nor is it set in or around London (both usual in Dickens' novels). Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town partially based upon 19th-century Preston.

Dickens' reasons for writing Hard Times were mostly monetary. Sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and he hoped the inclusion of this novel in instalments would increase sales. Since publication it has received a mixed response from a diverse range of critics, such as F.R. Leavis, George Bernard Shaw, and Thomas Macaulay, mainly focusing on Dickens' treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalistic mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times


A boy....Gregg Prentice
Bitzer (10)....Alex Slater
Bitzer....Declan Wilson
Chairman....Ben Crowe
Childers....Chris Moran
Guard....Chris Moran
James harthouse....Guy Henry
Jane....Soumaya Keynes
Josephine....Jaimi Barbakoff
Jjosiah bounderby....Philip Jackson
Llouisa....Helen Longworth
Mr m'choakumchild....Stephen Critchlow
Mrs blackpool....Francis Jeater
Mrs gradgrind....Thelma Barlow
Mrs pegler....Marcia Warren
Mrs sparsit....Eleanor Bron
Rachael....Becky Hindley
Servant....Ioan Meredith
Sissy (10)....Stephanie Rawson
Sissy....Lydia Tuckey
Slackbridge....Ioan Meredith
Sleary....Derek Waring
Stephen....Alan Williams
Thomas gradgrind....Kenneth Cranham
Tom (14)....Nick Roud
Tom....Richard Firth
Waiter....Damien Lynch
Waiter....Declan Wilson

Music by.... Nina Perry
Directed by Janet Whitaker
By Charles Dickens
Dramatised by Doug Lucie


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Audio Format : MP3
Duration Approx : 54mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits