by Charles Dickens, dramatised in ten episodes by Betty Davies
with Janet Maw as Lizzie Hexham, Angela Pleasance as Jenny Wren, Michael Cochrane as Eugene Wrayburn, Michael Kitchen as John Rokesmith, Pippa Guard as Bella Wilfer, Michael Graham Cox as Mr Boffin, Megs Jenkins as Mrs Boffin, Douglas Livingstone as Silas Wegg, Tom Wilkinson as Bradley Headstone and Simon Cadell as the Narrator.
'Riderhood pointed behind him, "Gaffer's done me. It's Gaffer!" They ran to the rope, leaving him gasping there. Soon the form of the bird of prey, dead some hours, lay stretched upon the shore.'
(Repeated: Friday 3.0 pm)