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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

2. Plotting

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Orphaned ambitious Becky Sharp awaits a marriage proposal, while school friend Amelia meets old friend Dobbin.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Becky Sharp …… Emma Fielding
Amelia Sedley …… Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne …… Nicholas Boulton
Jos Sedley …… Toby Jones
William Dobbin..............Tom Smith

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004. Show less

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