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Vanity Fair

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A novel without a hero by William Makepeace Thackeray dramatised for radio in ten parts by Michael Kittermaster
with Sarah Badel as Becky, Petra Markham as Amelia, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies as Miss Crawley, Stephen Murray as Mr Osborne, John Pullen as Rawdon Crawley, Sean Barrett as William Dobbin, Peter Wickham as Pitt Crawley, John Westbrook as Lord Steyne, and Alec McCowen as Thackeray
5: After Waterloo
In which many machinations and family suspicions are stirred up by the question: to whom will Miss Crawley leave her money? A lonely old man visits the battlefield of Waterloo. We learn how a gentleman may live on nothing a year; and our new young citizens of Vanity Fair learn to distinguish between Mayfair and the less salubrious parts of the city. With Hilda Schroder as Mrs Sedley Richard Hurndall as Mr Sedley and Samuel West and Simon Richmond as the two new young citizens of Vanity Fair Directed by David Spenser
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Author:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatist:
Michael Kittermaster
Directed By:
David Spenser
Becky:
Sarah Badel
Amelia:
Petra Markham
Miss Crawley:
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Mr Osborne:
Stephen Murray
Rawdon Crawley:
John Pullen
William Dobbin:
Sean Barrett
Pitt Crawley:
Peter Wickham
Lord Steyne:
John Westbrook
Thackeray:
Alec McCowen
The Rev Bute Crawley:
David King
Mrs Bute Crawley:
Petra Davies
James Crawley:
Ian Masters
Miss Briggs:
Joan Matheson
Bowls:
Harold Kasket
Lord Southdown:
James Hall
Lady Southdown:
Brenda Kaye
Lady Jane:
Jennifer Piercey
Lady Emily/French maid:
Eve Karpf
George:
Henry Knowles
Sergeant Clink:
Eric Allan
Mrs Sedley:
Hilda Schroder
Mr Sedley:
Richard Hurndell
New young citizen of Vanity Fair:
Samuel West
New young citizen of Vanity Fair:
Simon Richmond

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