Charles Dickens: the truth about his death and burial

This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast , features the work of Leon Litvack at Queen’s University Belfast on what happened after the death of Charles Dickens. His new research has uncovered the never-before-explored areas of the great author’s sudden death on June 9 1870, and his subsequent burial. Dickens’s death created an early predicament for his family. Where was he to be buried? Near his home (as he would have wished) or in that great public pantheon, Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey (which was clearly against his wishes)? But two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching. You can read the text version of this in depth article here . The audio version is read by Michael Parker and edited by Gemma Ware. This story came out of a project at The Conversation called Insights . Sponsored by Research England, our Insights team generate in depth articles derived from interdisciplinary research. You can read their stories here , or

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Charles Dickens: the truth about his death and burial is an episode from In Depth, Out Loud by The Conversation.

This episode is 29:56 long.

This episode was published on Jun 8, 2020.

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