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Classic Serial: Little Dorrit: 1

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Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire and imprisonment is dramatised in five parts by Doug Lucie.
Arthur Clennam returns from China, fearful of a wrong committed by his parents, and meets Little Dorrit, a young seamstress. Curious and protective towards her he follows her to her home, the Marshalsea debtor's prison, and is introduced to her extraordinary family.

Repeated Saturday 9pm
Recording the serial on location: page 11

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Doug Lucie.
Director:
Janet Whitaker.
Music:
Mia Soteriou
Violin:
Steve Bentley-Klein
Dickens:
Ian McKellen
Arthur:
Julian Wadham
Mrs Clennam:
Margaret Tyzack
William:
John Wood
Little Dorrit:
Jasmine Hyde
Fanny:
Indira Varma
Frederick:
Peter Tuddenham
Flora:
Sophie Thompson
Flintwinch:
Ioan Meredith
Affery:
Jennie Stoller
Tite Barnacle:
Gordon Reid
Barnacle Jnr:
Kenny Blyth
Maggy:
Helen Ayres
Pancks:
Philip Joseph
Plornish:
Jonathan Keeble
Source: Radio Times

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