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

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 CollinsThis 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 CunisOriginal 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 Support the showIf you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dominicgerrardThank you so much!Host: Dominic GerrardSeries Artwork: Léna GibertOriginal Music: Dominic GerrardThank you for listening!