THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES 📚: with Dr. Emily Bell

About this episode

Dominic is joined by the inimitable Dr. Emily Bell who guides the listener through the rollercoaster that is Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins' Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices  - a unique blend of travel writing and ghost stories seen through the eyes of the quintessentially British  characters of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, who amusingly mirror their creators, Dickens and Collins This eccentric collection contains within its pages two fantastic ghosts stories - The Dead Hand & The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber - and other dark flights of fancy that crash in on the everyday. It is a work full of both silliness and mystery and (in spite of its title) the action hardly ever gives in to any idleness ... Reading the excerpts in this episode is the fantastic actor Adam Cunis Original cover headshot of Dominic Gerrard © Jane Lloyd  / Original cover headshot of Emily Middleton (née Bell) © Dustin Smith, Skywall Photography / Original artwork of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by A. J. Goodman (from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, Vol. 28) sourced by Project Gutenberg This episode was originally broadcast on 20th October 2023 Support th