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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

17. Fight

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Available for years

Rawdon falters in his resolve to fight a duel with Lord Steyne.

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
Lady Jane …. Jemma Churchill
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard
Pitt .... Jon Glover
Mr Wenham …. Philip Fox
Captain MacMurdo …. Mark Bonnar
with Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Marc Beeby

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

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