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was one of the most original, influential and prolific writers of the 19th
century, and one of its most charismatic figures. His tragic, deprived
boyhood included watching his father confined to the debtor’s prison
and a year as a child labourer in a blacking factory.
Prime Biographies on Sunday November 19 at 10 p.m. showcases how the blacking factory left a scar on the psyche of Charles Dickens. He never forgot the shocking experience which became the subject of his two best-known novels David Copperfield and Great Expectations. By his early twenties, he had already achieved popularity as a writer of "serials". But his fame could not keep him from the deep loneliness after he was divorced from his wife who bore him 10 children. Neither his children nor his mistress Ellen Ternan could banish the unrelenting ghosts that would haunt him until his death. Spooky tales Can you lock yourself in a haunted location for 24 hours? Join Yvette Fielding, an expert in the paranormal field, on Star World every Friday at 10 p.m. for Most Haunted, which takes you inside haunted locations. In the series, Yvette Fielding and his team spend 24 hours in Britain’s most haunted locations, from castles to manor houses to underground stations, braving morbid atmospheres in chilling venues in an attempt to uncover the truth of ghostly sightings, poltergeists and ethereal voices. With a range of scientific
tracking equipment and night vision cameras, they capture the most
extraordinary paranormal activity ever to be seen on camera. At hand are
mediums, psychics and parapsychologists who evaluate the investigations
in an attempt to answer the eternal question — do ghosts exist? —
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