The Essay | The Writer’s Dickens: AL Kennedy – No Hope of Return

Based on Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Taking an excerpt from Nicholas Nickleby, novelist AL Kennedy explores Charles Dickens's - and her own - literary response to the themes of poverty, misery and death.

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  • Type: Analysis
  • Channel: BBC Radio 3
  • Duration: 14'52''
  • Broadcast date: 2011
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