by Charles Dickens, dramatised in ten episodes by Betty Davies
Starring Angela Pleasence as Little Dorrit and Daniel Massey as Arthur Clennam

The door of the prison room was swung open and in the doorway stood the missing Blandois, the cause of many anxieties. 'You villain of ill-omen!' said Arthur, 'You have purposely cast a dreadful suspicion upon my mother's house. Why have you done it? What prompted you to the devilish invention?'

With Pauline Letts as Mrs Clennam, Patrick Troughton as Jeremiah Flintwinch, Avril Elgar as Affery Flintwinch, Philip Voss as Blandois, Jack May as Mr Casby, Douglas Livingstone as Mr Pancks, Michael Graham Cox as Mr Meagles, William Nighy as John Chivery and Simon Cadell as Charles Dickens

(Repeated Tues 3.15 pm)
(Title music: the second movement of Finzi's Cello Concerto)
(Selina Cadell is a National Theatre player)
(Next Sat: A Dance to the Music of Time)
(long wave only)