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Bleak House

on BBC Two England

by CHARLES DICKENS
Dramatised in eight episodes by ARTHUR HOPCRAFT starring Diana Rigg Denholm Elliott
1: Esther Summerson , brought up as an orphan, is summoned to London by her guardian's solicitors. She is to meet the Wards of Court in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case and to become acquainted with her guardian for the first time.
Music GEOFFREY BURGON
Make-up designer LISA WESTCOTT Film editor CLARE DOUGLAS Photographed by KENNETH MACMILLAN Designer TIM HARVEY Executive producer JONATHAN POWELL
Producers JOHN HARRIS BETTY WILLINGALE
Directed by ROSS DEVENISH t FEATURE: page 82 *CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Hopcraft
Unknown:
Diana Rigg
Unknown:
Denholm Elliott
Unknown:
Esther Summerson
Music:
Geoffrey Burgon
Editor:
Clare Douglas
Unknown:
Kenneth MacMillan
Designer:
Tim Harvey
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Producers:
John Harris
Producers:
Betty Willingale
Directed By:
Ross Devenish
Young Esther:
Rebecca Sebborn
Miss Barbary:
Fiona Walker
Esther Summerson:
Suzanne Burden
Jo:
Chris Pitt
'Nemo':
Donald Sumpter
William Guppy:
Jonathan Moore
Lord Chancellor:
Graham Crowden
Ada Clare:
Lucy Hornak
Richard Carstone:
Philip Franks
Miss Flite:
Sylvia Coleridge
Krook:
Bernard Hepton
Footman:
Stephen Kemble
Tulkinghorn:
Peter Vaughan
Sir Leicester Dedlock:
Robin Bailey
Lady Dedlock:
Diana Rigg
Gridley:
Frank Windsor
Guster:
Kathy Burke
Snagsby:
Sam Kelly
Waggoner:
Arthur Hewlett
John Jamdyce:
Denholm Elliott
Harold Skimpole:
T. P. McKenna
Housemaid:
Cathy Murphy
Begging woman:
Wanda Lynam

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