Claire Tomalin - Charles [bad word]  Life
Episode 3 of 5: Episode 3

Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of Britain's great novelist paints a portrait of an [bad word] man. Today the novelist is well received in America.

As part of [bad word] on the BBC Radio 4 broadcasts extracts from Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of the novelist who called himself the "inimitable". He was the writer so "charged with imaginative energy that he rendered nineteenth century England crackling, full of [bad word] and life, with his laughter, horror and indignation - and sentimentality."

Read by Penelope Wilton
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

First broadcast: 30 Nov 2011 (b017mv1k)
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