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Who Did What Now

88. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations, Terrible Reality

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Charles Dickens is one of the most popular writers ever to exist, he championed for the poor, he highlighted inequality and child labour laws, and he's even partly responsible for the wholesome concept of Christmas. However there is more to the novelist than meets the eye, so let's dive in and unwrap the bleak truth of Dickens' life.

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:11.0

Music Hi everybody and welcome to Who Dead What Now, the History Podcast.

0:29.1

That's not your history class.

0:31.4

With me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot, and Reuter of Books.

0:36.7

I would like to thank everybody who has been

0:40.6

rating and reviewing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts who have been answering

0:47.2

the Q&As and sharing and commenting and yeah, those five-star reviews. Yeah, you really really you really went for it this year didn't

0:56.6

you like everyone as well in the UK who was doing it because I managed to hit number 30 on the UK

1:06.3

Spotify chart like just in time for Spotify wrapped so that was that was a nice way end of the year. I mean,

1:14.2

I'd like to go higher just to, just to annoy some people more than anything else. Because,

1:20.3

you know, I'm petty and I'm at a point where I'm just pissed off. I mean, things are doing okay.

1:26.6

I mean, it's frosty and I have to get ready for Disneyland Paris with my kids.

1:31.0

And everything's booked, and that's fine.

1:33.6

But, um, clothes.

1:36.1

I haven't got any clothes organized.

1:38.6

And my washing machine...

1:41.3

How did I put this?

1:48.4

The water pipe leading into the washing machine. How do I put this? Uh, the water pipe leading into the washing machine froze.

1:56.9

And I cannot defrost it because it is under the ground. And yeah, yeah, we, we don't have clothes. I mean, I have some things. I can make things work. But the distinct lack of

2:01.7

underwear is now starting to cause a problem. And now I'm thinking, do I just go old school

2:07.1

as if I'm trying to make wine, you know, chuck it in the bath, stomp on it with the parasol

2:13.9

or whatever, the fairy fairy or I don't know

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