Gerald Charles Dickens (actor) his own British and American tours, Gerald Dickens performs extracts from "The Pickwick Papers", "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", "Great Expectations", "Nicholas Nickleby" and "A Christmas Carol" among others, in the latter creating 26 characters in a performance described by "The New York Times" as "a once in a lifetime brush with literary history." Dickens has recorded unabridged audiobooks of "The Pickwick Papers" and "Nicholas Nickleby". In December 2011 he appeared on the BBC's "Songs of Praise". A keen golfer, he wrote and performs the two-act play "Top Hole!", based on four golfing stories by P. G. Wodehouse. In 2015 at
MV Great Expectations MV Great Expectations "Hythe Scene" (formerly MV "Great Expectations") is a catamaran ferry operating on the Hythe ferry service. This service connects the town of Hythe and the city of Southampton, across Southampton Water in England. MV "Great Expectations" was originally introduced in 1992 and was originally used on the Gravesend to Tilbury ferry service across the River Thames in Kent, which was at that time operated by White Horse Ferries Ltd. She was named after the Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations", in which the countryside of Kent and the marshes on the lower regions of the Thames feature heavily.