Armando Iannucci presents a personal argument in praise of the genius of Charles Dickens. Through the prism of the author's most autobiographical novel, David Copperfield, Armando looks beyond Dickens - the national institution - and instead explores the qualities of Dickens's work which still make him one of the best British writers. 　　While Dickens is often celebrated for his powerful depictions of Victorian England and his role as a social reformer, this programme foregrounds the elements of his writing which make him worth reading, as much for what he tells us about ourselves in the twenty-first century as our ancestors in the nineteenth. 　　Armando argues that Dickens's remarkable use of language and his extraordinary gift for creating characters make him a startlingly experimental and psychologically penetrating writer who demands not just to be adapted for television but to be read and read again.

故事发生在十九世纪的伦敦，故事中所出现的人物均为著名作家狄更斯笔下的角色。亚瑟（约瑟夫·奎恩 Joseph Quinn）和艾米莉亚（塔彭丝·米德尔顿 Tuppence Middleton 饰）悲痛的埋葬了父亲的遗体，让亚瑟感到震惊的是，父亲竟然没有将一分一毫的遗产留给他，这让他在内心里偷偷埋下了复仇的种子。 　　皮条客费金（安东·莱瑟 Anton Lesser 饰）打算将女孩南希（Bethany Muir 饰）送往雅各布（彼得·弗斯 Peter Firth 饰）所主持的晚宴助兴，为了确保南希的安全，小偷比尔（马克·斯坦利 Mark Stanley 饰）决定全程跟随南希，一步也不离开。就在晚宴即将拉开序幕之际，众人却在雪地之中发现了雅各布的尸体，这一宗谋杀案改变了所有人的命运。

讲述两个生意对家意外发现他们居然是双胞胎，便决定通过互换身份的方式来让离婚的父母破镜重圆，从而找回自己的家庭。

讲述两个生意对家意外发现他们居然是双胞胎，便决定通过互换身份的方式来让离婚的父母破镜重圆，从而找回自己的家庭。

Anderson said he’s now ready to take on another huge British novelist. 　　“I feel like the writer who I would like to adapt — who I don’t know if I can see the opportunity — is Dickens,” he said. “I would like to do a big Dickens story. They’ve all been adapted. They’ve all been done many times. They’re so interesting. People keep going back to them. They’re so entertaining and so complex.”

Anderson said he’s now ready to take on another huge British novelist. 　　“I feel like the writer who I would like to adapt — who I don’t know if I can see the opportunity — is Dickens,” he said. “I would like to do a big Dickens story. They’ve all been adapted. They’ve all been done many times. They’re so interesting. People keep going back to them. They’re so entertaining and so complex.”