THE SIGNAL-MAN 📚: with John Bowen

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

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Dominic is joined by the inimitable Professor John Bowen who returns to this series to explore the hidden depths beneath the pages of one of Dickens' most iconic ghost stories -The Signal-Man
Written only a year after Dickens survived the Staplehurst Rail Crash, The Signal-Man finds an author grappling with trauma and the conflicted feelings of fear and wonder at the new railways, mixed with a desperate yearning to know in advance where danger lies …
Reading excerpts from the haunting tale is the fantastic actor and director Oliver Dimsdale

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Host: Dominic Gerrard
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Chapter

1. The Mystery of Dickens' "The Signalman" (00:00:00)

2. Signaling in "The Signalman" (00:15:57)

3. Ghosts and Premonitions in Dickens' Stories (00:26:56)

4. Gothic Love in Dickens' Works (00:37:33)

5. Exploring Literary Style Through Umbrellas (00:53:07)

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