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The Sunday Play: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Charles Dickens: adapted for radio by Mollie Hardwick
The story is told, with the words of Charles Dickens, by Francis de Wolff
with John Gabriel, Denys Blakelock, Brian Oulton

'A mystery around a mystery,' for Dickens died in 1870 before he could finish the story. How did he intend it to end? Many have been the theories advanced to account for Edwin's disappearance, and to name his suspected murderer. Mollie Hardwick suggests yet another solution in the closing minutes of this radio play.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Mollie Hardwick
Producer:
Raymond Raikes
John Jasper:
John Gabriel
Princess Puffer:
Mary Wimbush
The Dean of Cloisterham:
Hamlyn Benson
Mr Tope, the Verger:
Timothy Harley
Canon Crisparkle:
Patrick Barr
Edwin Drood:
Malcolm Terris
Rosa Bud:
Rosalind Shanks
Neville Landless:
Nigel Graham
Helena Landless:
Isabel Rennie
Mr Grewgious:
Denys Blakelock
Durdles:
John Boxer
Deputy:
Gordon Gardner
Bazzard, clerk to Mr Grewgious:
Brian Oulton
A jeweller:
Stephen Thorne
Lieutenant Tartar:
David Valla

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