The CRASH BANG WALLOP Podcast

S4 Ep31: Dickens World - 2007


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It’s 2007, it’s Chatham in Kent and nestled in a gigantic aluminium box above a Nando's chicken shop is the most authentic recreation of Victorian England since The Muppet's Christmas Carol

In what Disney cockneys are already proclaiming is the 31st episode of the CB Wallop Podcast -Maory Pop-inns! join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss Dickens World - the well meaning theme park that tried to bring the genius of Dickens to life using nothing but fifty out of work actors, an animatronic Mr Pickwick and log flume down a river of s**t. 

Should they have included the Ripper? Yes... absolutely they should. 

Trigger Warning: Nothing to worry your fragile snowflake hearts in this one - it’s just a failed Victorian theme park. Unless you’re scared of saucy Bill Sikes that is. 

Music by Steve Adam
Written and Researched by Phil Lucas
Edited by Phil Jerrod

Sound Clips:

Dickens World, Chatham - 2008
KOS Media 2008. Made by Paul Jerreat and Julie Maddocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jdx1docVTI&t=19s

Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeyHl1tQeaQ
Song: Merry Christmas Everyone
Artist: Shakin' Stevens
Album: Merry Christmas Everyone
Writers: Bob Heatlie
Licensed to YouTube by
SME (on behalf of Epic); LatinAutor - SonyATV, EMI Music Publishing, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor, SOLAR Music Rights Management, CMRRA, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, ASCAP, and 6 Music Rights Societies

[No Copyright Music] Retro 80's Funky Jazz-Hop Instrumental (Copyright Free) Music - Sundance Remix
Music Credit: SUNDANCE
Track Name: "Perséphone - Retro Funky (SUNDANCE remix)"
Music By: SUNDANCE @ https://soundcloud.com/sundancemusic
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License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Music promoted by NCM https://goo.gl/fh3rEJ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hbnMgHgZfs

Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickens_World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186312-d655890-Reviews-Dickens_World-Chatham_Kent_England.html
http://www.kent-cottage-holidays.co.uk/charles_dickens.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham,_Kent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxoNcbdw6Uw
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/video/should-dickens-world-be-replaced-by-a-golf-course-22707/
https://www.facebook.com/dickensworldkent/
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/magazine/dickens-world.html?pagewanted=all
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent-business/county-news/dickens-world-debts-nearly-half-114422/
http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2014/12/dickens-world-a-themeparkaboutpoverty.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/dickens-world-london-photos-2012-2?r=US&IR=T
https://aboutlondonlaura.com/dickens-world/#
https://www.tripsavvy.com/what-is-dickens-world-1582810
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/hard-times-dickens-world-curious-saga-kents-62-million-literary/
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/video/should-dickens-world-be-replaced-by-a-golf-course-22707/
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