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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (Omnibus)

Episode 4

Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes

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

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Becky Sharp's husband is taken to debtors' prison.

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

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Omnibus of the last five of twenty episodes.

Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt

Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Hester …. Helen Longworth
Mr Moss …. Ian Masters
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard
Lord Steyne …. David Calder
Lady Jane …. Jemma Churchill
Pitt .... Jon Glover
Mr Wenham …. Philip Fox
Cpt MacMurdo …. Mark Bonnar
Jos Sedley .... Toby Jones
Polly, the maid …. Joanna McCallum
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Mr Sedley …. Ian Masters
Amelia …. Katy Cavanagh
Mr Wenham …. Philip Fox
John Osborne .... Geoffrey Whitehead
with Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Marc Beeby

First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2004. Show less

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