London in the Time of Dickens

A Tale of Two Londons

Special Interest Oct 28, 2023 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection

S1 E1: Travel back to Victorian London and explore the extreme contrasts of the city that inspired Charles Dickens’s most beloved works. Examine how Dickens uses melodrama to paint the portrait of a city divided starkly between the rich and poor and ponder what has changed over the course of 150 years and what has remained remarkably the same.

Special Interest Oct 28, 2023 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2023
Run Time: 31 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.