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Nicholas Nickleby

BBC Radio 4
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by CHAKLES DICKENS adapted and produced in seven episodes by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Ralph Nickleby hears that his brother has died and that the widow, with her son Nicholas and her daughter Kate, has arrived in London. He arranges for the boy to become assistant master at Mr Squeers' school in Yorkshire. There Nicholas meets Mrs Squeers, her daughter Fanny, and a poor orphan, Smike. and is horrified at the brutality with which the boys are treated. Fanny falls in love with Nicholas but, finding her love scorned, decides to be revenged ...
2: Follows the Fortunes 0/ Kate and her Brother

Contributors

Unknown:
Chakles Dickens
Unknown:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
Ralph Nickleby
Narrator:
Martin Friend
Miss La Creevy:
Hilda Schroder
Kate Nickleby:
Jane Knowles
Ralph Nickleby:
Edward Kelsey
Mrs Nickleby:
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Mr Mantalini:
Brian Hewlett
Madame Mantalini:
Eva Stuart
Nicholas Nickleby:
David Timson
Smike:
David Valla
Mr Wackford Squeers:
John Gabriel
Mrs Squeers:
Sheila Grant
John Browdie:
Patrick Tull
Miss Knag:
Katherine Parr
Mr Lillyvick:
Douglas Blackwell
Mrs Kenwigs:
Sheila Grant
Mr Kenwigs:
Leslie Heritage
Miss Henrietta Petowker:
Hilda Schroder
Newman Noggs:
Ronald Herdman
Lord Oldcastle:
William Eedle
Young lady:
Kate Binchy
Lord Frederick Verisopht:
Nigel Anthony
Sir Mulberry Hawk:
Michael Kilgarriff
Mr Pyke:
Leslie Heritage
Mr Pluck:
Douglas Blackwell
Source: Radio Times

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