by Charles Dickens.
Adapted in thirteen parts by P.D. Cummins.

"Ours was the marsh country down by the river" ...Pip is remembering that Christmas when he became the unwilling accomplice of a desperate convict, lavage with cold and hunger, who was yet more concerned with taking the life of his enemy than saving his own.
Leaving the bleak churchyard where his mother and father are buried, Pip returns fearfully across the Marshes to his sister.