A House to Let Omnibus

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BBC Radio 7

Charles Dickens

Drama: Classic & Period

Radio adaptations of Dicken's classic English literature.

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A House to Let (Omnibus)

Charles Dickens: A House to Let (Omnibus)

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charles Dickens, A House to Let (Omnibus)

Victorian tale of a woman and an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house.

Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of a woman worried about a derelict house. Stars Marcia Warren.

A festive tale by three eminent Victorian writers working together - Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. 

Distressed by an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house across from her new London home, Sophonisba relies on the competitive efforts of an elderly admirer and her manservant to unravel the secrets of the "house to let".

Omnibus of five episodes.

Sophonisba    ......    Marcia Warren
Jabez Jarber    ......    Alec McCowen
Trottle    ......    Brian Croucher
Openshaw    ......    Sam Dale
Alice    ......    Miranda Keeling
Norah    ......    Tracy Wiles
Frank    ......    Stephen Critchlow

Director: Ned Chaillet

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.

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