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Bleak House

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

by CHARLES DICKENS
Dramatised in eight episodes by ARTHUR HOPCRAFT starring Diana Rigg Denholm Elliott
2: The mysterious law-writer Nemo has been found dead in his lodgings; Lady Dedlock has taken an interest in his identity and her lawyer,
Tulkinghorn, is investigating. Esther has been entrusted with the running of Bleak House by her guardian, John Jarndyce.
Music GEOFFREY BURGON
Costume designer MICHAEL BURDLE Film editor DAVE KING
Photography KENNETH MACMILLAN Designer TIM HARVEY Executive producer JONATHAN POWELL
Producers JOHN HARRIS BETTY WILUNGALE
Directed by ROSS DEVENISH *CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Hopcraft
Unknown:
Diana Rigg
Unknown:
Denholm Elliott
Unknown:
John Jarndyce.
Designer:
Michael Burdle
Editor:
Dave King
Unknown:
Photography Kenneth MacMillan
Designer:
Tim Harvey
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Producers:
John Harris
Producers:
Betty Wilungale
Directed By:
Ross Devenish
Nemo:
Donald Sumpter
Beadle:
Christopher Whitehouse
Jo:
Chris Pitt
Coroner:
Gerald Flood
Snagsby:
Sam Kelly
Krook:
Bernard Hepton
Tulkinghorn:
Peter Vaughan
Allan Woodcourt:
Brian Deacon
Richard Carstone:
Philip Franks
Ada Clare:
Lucy Hornak
Harold Skimpole:
T.P. McKenna
John Jarndyce:
Denholm Elliott
Esther Summerson:
Suzanne Burden
Neckett:
Bill Wallis
Housemaid:
Cathy Murphy
Lady Dedlock:
Diana Rigg
Hortense:
Pamela Merrick
Sir Leicester Dedlock:
Robin Bailey
Boythom:
Robert Urquhart
Mrs Pardiggle:
Rosemary McHale
Pardiggle boys.:
Keith James
Pardiggle boys.:
Paul Ward,
Pardiggle boys.:
James Dean
Pardiggle boys.:
John O Liver
Pardiggle boys.:
Gavin Masters
Brickmaker:
Jack Carr
Brickmaker's wife:
Heather Tobias
Man with dog:
Peter-Hugo Daly
Waggoner:
Arthur Hewlett
William Guppy:
Jonathan Moore
Lord Chancellor:
Graham Crowden
Gridley:
Frank Windsor
Miss Flite:
Sylvia Coleridge
Source: Radio Times

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