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 4

Charles Dickens - Hard Times

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Episode 4

Stephen is missing, Tom goes on the run and Gradgrind gets some help. Dickens adaptation.

Stephen is missing, Tom goes on the run and Gradgrind gets Sleary's help. Dickens adaptation stars Kenneth Cranham and Eleanor Bron.

Sissy and Rachael go looking for Stephen Blackpool - tragedy follows. Tom's crime is uncovered and Gradgrind tries to save his son with Sleary's help. 

Mrs Sparsit claims victory over 'The Noddle'.

Conclusion of 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
Helen Longworth    ......    Louisa
Blitzer    ......    Declan Wilson 
Tom    ......    Richard Firth
Sissy    ......    Lydia Tuckey
Stephen    ......    Alan Williams 
Rachael    ......    Becky Hindley
Mrs Pegler    ......    Marcia Warren
Sleary    ......    Derek Waring

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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