Dickens in the News Archive

• Would Dickens be writing soap operas if he lived today? Robert Giddings looks at this popular belief in light of BBC's new Bleak House
• Roman Polanski's new Oliver Twist in theaters Sept 30, 2005
• English teachers: Free curriculum materials based on the new Oliver Twist film
• Work starts on Dickens theme park
• Churches Conservation Trust seeks to establish a Friends organisation for St James Church, Cooling - The original setting for the opening chapter of Great Expectations
• Bleak House to become BBC 'soap' - The BBC is producing a soap-style version of Charles Dickens' classic novel Bleak House
• Best-selling author John Irving discusses Dickens' influence on his writing on National Public Radio (NPR)
• Special to the Charles Dickens Page - An interview with Michael Patrick Hearn, author of The Annotated Christmas Carol
• David McCullough on Dickens