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This last story from "The Pickwick Papers" finds Dickens in roister-doister form with a rollicking, enchanting tale of derring-do: featuring a hero, heroine, and a couple of posh, dastardly villains!  

On a visit to Edinburgh, Jack Martin spends a " heavy" last night with Scottish friends and, on his way home in the wee small hours, he stumbles across a park full of abandoned old mail coaches.  Nodding off, he awakes to find a magical change as the coaches and their human contents spring into new life.  Our hero is whisked away on a journey involving kidnap, conspiracy, sword play and a beautiful, feisty heroine in peril.  Listen to how Jack makes it through to an exciting, romantic, but sadness-tinged denouement.     

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This is the third of our short-story adaptations from Charles Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers" and his first Yuletide supernatural tale.  It tells of Gabriel Grub, a morose, lonely and drunken grave digger who hates people, particularly during the festive season.  

One Christmas Eve, while at work in the graveyard, he encounters a startlingly scary Goblin Queen (and her many subjects), who terrorises and whisks him away to her underworld lair where Grub is shown the true human values of the season.

Dickens was to return triumphantly to this theme seven years later with "A Christmas Carol".

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Another short story from Charles Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers" and the only one in our series that is truly serious. 
 
Having been imprisoned by him, and after witnessing child and then wife die in abject poverty, George Heyling vows to be revenged on the man responsible for this tragedy - his father-in-law.  What follows is a path of destruction as Heyling systematically - and legally - ruins the man's life, engineering his death in a final, fatal confrontation. 

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"Tom Smart" is one of four short stories adapted from Charles Dickens' first major work "The Pickwick Papers".  Originally called "A Tale Told by a Bagman", it is a story of magical transformation.  After a few too many drinks at the inn where he is staying, our hero Tom  notices a strange wooden chair in his bedroom.  What follows is a fantastic encounter that changes Tom's life forever. 

Winner of the Adjudicator's Award at the 2021 Kent Drama Association (KDA) Radio Play Festival.

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