by Charles Dickens
Scenes from the novel arranged for broadcasting by Gilbert Heron

Scene I - The Revolutionary Tribunal, Paris, 1743
The Trial of Evremonde
President of the Tribunal
Public Prosecutor (Fouquier Tinville)
Ernest Defarge, of the Faubourg St. Antoine
Therese Defarge, his wife
The Vengeance, a revolutionary virago
Dr. Manette, one-time prisoner in the Bastille
Lucy Manette, his daughter
Charles Evremonde, called Darnay
Sydney Carton, a ne'er-do-well Barrister
The Jury: "All determined Patriots and Good Citizens:-As a jury of Dogs empaneled to try the Deer"
The Court is filled with a large crowd of excited Revolutionaries

Scene II - A cell in the prison of the Conciergerie
The Freeing of Evremonde
Charles Evremonde
Sydney Carton
Barsad, the Spy Jailer

Scene III - A vaulted chamber in the Conciergerie. On the way to the Guillotine, Sydney Carton fulfils his promise to Lucy
Sydney Carton
Mimi, a seamstress condemned to death

Apart from the wonderful picture of Georgian London and Revolutionary Paris, this story shows primarily the love of two men for one woman: the one, Sydney Carton, a dissolute and careless ne'er-do-well, the other a French aristocrat, Evremonde, known as Charles Darnay