Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen | Charles Dickens

Dev Patel, Rosalind Eleazar and Hugh Laurie in The Personal History of David Copperfield.

What is it about Great Expectations? Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s new dramatisation of Dickens’s novel is the seventh BBC adaptation – the first appearing on screens in 1954. Cinema has loved it too. David […]