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Check out the links below for media coverage of the Dickens Code project.
TV
- ARTE – 28 minutes – Le magazine d’actualité (8 February 2022) [from 40.43]
- ITV News at Ten (7 February 2022)
- NTV Russia – ‘В Британии пытаются расшифровать закодированные записи Диккенса’ [Decoding Dickens’s letters] (7 February 2022)
Radio
- ABC Radio National – RN Breakfast with Patricia Karvelas (11 February 2022)
- ABC Radio Melbourne – ‘What the Dickens’ segment on ‘Breakfast with Sammy J’ (7 February 2022)
- Times Radio – ‘John Pienaar with Times Radio Drive’ (7 February 2022)
- talkSPORT/talkRADIO – ‘Extra Time with Paul Ross’ (30 December 2021) [from 05:48]
- BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking ‘Being Human 2021’ (11 November 2021) [from 30:10]
Podcasts
- ‘The Dickens Code’, Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire (21 October 2022)
Articles
- Francesca Romana Cicolella, ‘Decoding Dickens: decifrata la “Tavistock letter”’, Unifgmag (15 February 2022) [digital]
- Jenny Gross, ‘Decoding Dickens’s Secret Notes to Himself, One Symbol at a Time’, New York Times (8 February 2022) [digital]
- Press release: ‘The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research’, University of Leicester News (7 February 2022) [digital]
- Feature: Simon Usborne, ‘Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did’, Guardian (7 February 2022) [print and digital]
- Daniel Capurro, ‘Unique shorthand created by Charles Dickens finally deciphered, revealing angry dispute with newspaper’, The Telegraph (7 February 2022) [print and digital]
- Nadeem Badshah, ‘Charles Dickens code cracked 150 years on… with the help of Reddit’, The Times (7 February 2022) [print and digital]
- Jennifer Harby, ‘Charles Dickens’s code cracked by amateur sleuths’, BBC News (6 February 2022) [digital]
- Feature: Sara Tor, ‘What the Dickens? Academics offer reward for anyone who can crack the great writer’s code’, The Times (Saturday 20 November 2021) [print and digital]
- Valeria Monachese, ‘Decoding Dickens: la sfida per decifrare la “Tavistock letter” di Charles Dickens’, Unifgmag (29 November 2021) [digital]
- Press release: ‘The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters’, University of Leicester News (16 December 2021) [digital]
- ‘Appeal for help to decode mystery Dickens texts’, BBC News (24 December 2021) [digital]