Charles Dickens's Theory of Evolution

- Do you like Dickens?
- I don't know, I've never been to one!

Oh dear. The 1960s weren't exactly the high point for joke telling. For if they only knew that Charles Dickens, the renowned Victorian author, also ran a sideline in theorising about the nature of Humanity, then they would have ceased their mindless frippery and indulged in the thoughts of one of the foremost proponents of Evolution that the world has ever known.

And we at the No Show have been extremely fortunate to forge links with Charles Dickens following his retirement from life to present his musings upon the human condition to a wider audience. Well, ahem... the three people who listen to URE.

On this page, we will present some of the highlights from Mr Dickens's enlightening radio positionings.

"Mr Hardwick was a well-to-do ape with grand ambition and a brilliant mind. Then, he evolved into a human, and it was all downhill from there, really..."

"When a small boy begs for gruel in a workhouse, he is echoing the behaviour of his ape ancestors, begging for bananas off the dinosaurs."

"Natural selection weeds out the mad, the sick and the terminally infirm. That or the workhouse..."

"Fish begat lizard. Lizard begat mammal. Mammal begat primate. Primate begat human. Human married his cousin after inheriting his late uncle's estate."

"Oh, Mr Chaddlesbaker! You appear to be grunting loudly and dragging your knuckles along the ground! Do you have the vapours, sir, or is it the heady London climate?"