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Charles Dickens

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Radio adaptations of Dicken's classic English literature.

Charles Dickens: Mrs Lirriper

Charles Dickens: Mrs Lirriper: Episode 3: Mrs Lirriper's Legacy

Charles Dickens - Mrs Lirriper

Episode 3

Episode 3: Mrs Lirriper's Legacy

Mrs Lirriper

Mrs Lirriper's Legacy

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charles Dickens, Mrs Lirriper, Mrs Lirriper's Legacy

A mysterious benefactor wants to bequeath everything to the kindly landlady.

A mysterious benefactor wants to bequeath everything to the kindly landlady. Stars Julia McKenzie and John Fortune.

Jemmy returns from school for the holidays just in time to join Mrs Lirriper and the Major on a trip to France in search of a mysterious benefactor. When they eventually track him down, he turns out to be the last person anyone could have expected. 

Charles Dickens's neglected classic dramatised and produced by Ellen Dryden. 

Starring Julia McKenzie as Mrs Lirriper, John Fortune as the Major, Jordan Clarke as Jemmy, Alison Skilbeck as Miss Wozenham and Gus Brown as Mr Buffle/Consul. 

Made by First Writes Radio for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast in 2007.

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Charles Dickens' oft overlooked tale of a huge-hearted landlady and her eccentric lodgers

Charles Dickens' often overlooked tale of a huge-hearted landlady and her eccentric lodgers. Stars Julia McKenzie and John Fortune

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