Hello and welcome to a special Legacy Encore episode.

While we take a short break over the Christmas period, we're dipping back into the archive

to revisit some of our favourite episodes.

And we can't start anywhere better than with Charles Dickens and Christmas Cowell.

We'll let the episode speak for itself. But before we do, here's a quick reminder that the full

back catalogue is always there for you to explore.

Hello and welcome to the second episode of our series on Charles Dickens.

We left you in the last episode with Dickens and his new wife, Catherine.

He's just published his first book, Sketches by Boz, and he's hard at work on his first novel.

Things are looking good for young Boz. It's 1836. He's 24.

In love, or so he tells himself,

first child on the way,

his writings attracting attention.

He is the rising star of the London literary world.

Fame is coming,

but so is a roller coaster ride

of triumph and tragedy.

Music a ride of triumph and tragedy. From Wondery and Goalhanger, I'm Peter Frankipo.

I'm Afwa Hirsch.

And this is Legacy,

the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived, and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve.

This is Charles Dickens, episode two.

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