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Bleak House

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by CHARLES DICKENS
The last of eight episodes dramatised by BETTY DAVIES
The Mistress of Bleak House
A terrible impression steals upon Lady Dedlock and overshadows her, that from this pursuer, living or dead. there is no escape but in death. Hunted she flies.
With ALAN DUDLEY. STELLA FORGE. STEVE HODSON , JOHN LIVESEY and STEPHEN THORNE Technical presentation by PETER novis and DAVID GREENWOOD assisted by DIANA BARKHAM,
PAUL PEARSON. DAVID CHILTON and VANESSA ELLNER
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player; Sylvia Coleridge is in The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar Et at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised By:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Alan Dudley.
Unknown:
Steve Rodson
Unknown:
John Livesey
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Presentation By:
Peter Novis
Presentation By:
David Greenwood
Unknown:
Paul Pearson.
Unknown:
David Chilton
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Unknown:
Michael Bryant
Unknown:
Sylvia Coleridge
Esther Summerson:
Brenda Blethyn
John Jarndyce:
Michael Bryant
Inspector Bucket:
Douglas Livingstone
Richard Carstone:
Andrew Seear
Ada Clare:
Maggie Wilkinson
Mr Guppy:
William Nighy
Grandfather Smallweed:
Patrick Troughton
Sir Leicester Dedlock:
Jack May
Trooper George:
Michael Graham Cox
Miss Flite:
Sylvia Coleridge
Charles Dickens:
Simon Cadell
Allan Woodcourt:
Adam Bareham
Mrs Rouncewell:
Margot Boyd
Mr Kenge:
Philip Voss
Mr Vholes:
Ronald Herdman
Mrs Guppy:
Gladys Spencer
Brickmaker:
Michael McStay

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