Hard Times

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Charles Dickens

Drama: Classic & Period

Radio adaptations of Dicken's classic English literature.

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Charles Dickens: Hard Times: Episode 2

Charles Dickens - Hard Times

Episode 2

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With Tom at his bank, Bounderby weds Louisa while Stephen angers the union.

With Tom at his bank, Bounderby weds Louisa while Stephen angers the union. Dickens adaptation stars Kenneth Cranham and Eleanor Bron.

Six years have passed; Tom is now working for Bounderby in his Bank, and he claims Louisa in marriage. Stephen Blackpool runs into trouble with the union men.

Charles Dickens's 1854 classic about struggles in the industrial north, dramatised by Doug Lucie.

Thomas Gradgrind    ......    Kenneth Cranham
Josiah Bounderby    ......    Philip Jackson 
Mrs Sparsit    ......    Eleanor Bron
Mrs Gradgrind     ......    Thelma Barlow
Helen Longworth    ......    Louisa
Rachael    ......    Becky Hindley 
Stephen    ......    Alan Williams
Mrs Pegler    ......    Marcia Warren
Slackbridge    ......    Ioan Meredith 
Blitzer    ......    Declan Wilson 
Tom    ......    Richard Firth
Sissy    ......    Lydia Tuckey
James Harthouse    ......    Guy Henry
Chairman    ......    Ben Crowe 
Waiter    ......    Damien Lynch

Music by Nina Perry.

Director: Janet Whitaker

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003.

Charles Dickens: Hard Times

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Dickens' classic appraisal of trade unions and post-Industrial Revolution pessimism.

Dickens' classic appraisal of trade unions and post-Industrial Revolution pessimism. His only novel not to feature London, instead set in a fictional Northern mill town.

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