Exhibition audio
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Title
Exhibition audio
Description
Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.
- Find out more about Dominic's work: http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/
- Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197
Creator
Gerrard, Dominic
Date
2023
Rights
You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard
Language
English
Collection Items
Audio recording: Anecdote
Reading of 'Anecdote', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone
Audio recording: David learns shorthand
Reading of a passage from chapter 38 of David Copperfield, in which David struggles to learn Brachygraphy shorthand
Audio recording: Dickens recalls his early experiences as a reporter
Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes the difficulties of shorthand reporting on the move
Audio recording: Dickens recalls his time as a parliamentary reporter
Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes his experiences of parliamentary reporting
Audio recording: Dickens talks about his lifelong relationship with shorthand in an 1865 speech to the Newspaper Press Fund
Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes his habit of following speeches as if taking shorthand notes
Audio recording: Dickens's shorthand aide-mémoire from the 1867 pocket diary
Reading of a quotation that Dickens noted down in his Pocket Diary, to use in a later speech
Audio recording: Didactic
Reading of 'Didactic', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone
Audio recording: Henry Fielding Dickens reminisces about learning shorthand with his father
Reading of an extract in which Dickens's son recalls lessons with his father
Audio recording: John Cayford (the ‘original’ for Joe Gargery), on Dickens writing shorthand
Reading of an extract in which John Cayford recalls Dickens describing his shorthand as the 'devil's handwriting'
Audio recording: Nelson
Reading of 'Nelson', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone