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The Best of Times - the Worst of Times: Much Better to Die Doing

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last of a seven-part series compiled by Michael Bakewell
with Martin Jarvis as Charles Dickens

'Too late to say put the curb on, and don't rush at hills - the wrong man to say it to. I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident I should rust, break and die if I spared myself.'

(Stereo)

Contributors

Compiled by :
Michael Bakewell
Researcher:
Melissa Bakewell
Director:
Rosemary Hart
Charles Dickens:
Martin Jarvis
Narrator/Forster:
Paul Daneman
Betty Higden:
Patricia Hayes
Yates:
Peter Marinker
Magwitch:
Garard Green
Pip:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Estella:
Karen Archer
Carlyle:
David Goodland
Old Weller:
John Baddeley
Dolby:
Arnold Diamond
Annie Fields:
Polly James
Georgina Hogarth:
Rosalind Ayres
Charley Dickens:
Valentine Pelka
Macready:
Harold Innocent
Other parts played by:
Victoria Carling
Other parts played by:
Gwen Cherrell
Other parts played by:
Alan Dudley
Other parts played by:
Anthony Jackson
Other parts played by:
Eva Stuart
Other parts played by:
Richard Tate
Source: Radio Times

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