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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

6. Loss

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Available for years

Becky Sharp gains a husband, but loses the chance of a title.

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

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised in twenty parts by Stephen Wyatt.

Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Miss Crawley ..... Margaret Tyzack
Sir Pitt Crawley .... Trevor Peacock
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Miss Briggs .... Kate Buffery
Auctioneer …. Jon Glover
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard

Director: Claire Grove

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

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