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
Great Expectations (1974 film) by Freddie Young. It was filmed in Eastmancolor and it was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival in 1975. The film was originally intended to be a musical, perhaps inspired by the commercial and critical success of Carol Reed's Oscar-winning "Oliver!" CinemaTV Today reported in 1974 however that 'in an unprecedented move, the bulk of the score for Sir Lew Grade and NBC's musical version of "Great Expectations" has been scrapped seven weeks into shooting'. "Films Illustrated" reported that the film would contain 'only a traditional score by Maurice Jarre' after the idea of a film musical version