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Dickens is a 2002 three-part docudrama presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based. An unorthodox style is taken: actors play various individuals in Dickens' life (as well as Dickens himself), interviewed as if appearing in a contemporary documentary. Their words are from actual letters and journals of the individuals involved, and serve to illuminate the hardships and successes in Dickens' life, and the way his experiences found their way into his works.
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Peter Ackroyd
BBC One

Geoffrey Palmer
Thackeray

Jack Davenport
Charley Dickens

Natasha Little
Ellen Ternan
Avril Ellis
Avril Ellis
Frances Ternan

Christopher Ettridge
John Byrne

Timothy West
John Dickens

Prunella Scales
Elizabeth Dickens
Joseph Traynor
Joseph Traynor
Young Charles
Tom Bowles
Tom Bowles
Lawrence Mercer

Jack Chissick
Bob Fagin

Trevor Peacock
William Barker

Lucy Davenport
Mary Hogarth
Rachel Swann
Rachel Swann
Young Catherine
Peter Mair
Peter Mair
Panto Dame

Phyllis Logan
Georgina Hogarth