Little Dorrit

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Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit: Episode 1

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Episode 1

Arthur Clennam befriends seamstress Amy Dorrit and meets her extraordinary family.

Arthur Clennam befriends seamstress Amy Dorrit and meets her extraordinary family at a debtor's prison. Stars Ian McKellen.

Arthur Clennam returns from China, fearful of a wrong committed by his parents. 

Curious and feeling protective when he meets young seamstress, Amy Dorrit - he follows her home, to the Marshalsea Debtor's Prison, where he's introduced to her extraordinary family.

Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire and imprisonment, first published in 1855.  

Dramatised in five parts by Doug Lucie. 

Starring Sir Ian McKellen as Charles Dickens. 

Recorded on location in London. 

Charles Dickens    ......    Ian McKellen
Arthur Clennam    ......    Julian Wadham 
Mrs Clennam    ......    Margaret Tyzack 
William Dorrit    ......    John Wood 
Little Dorrit    ......    Jasmine Hyde
Flora Finching    ......    Sophie Thompson 
Fanny Dorrit    ......    Indira Varma
Frederick Dorrit    ......    Peter Tuddenham 
Affery    ......    Jennie Stoller
Barnacle Junior    ......    Kenny Blyth  
Maggy    ......    Helen Ayres 
Pancks    ......    Philip Joseph 
Flintwinch    ......    Ioan Meredith
Tite Barnacle    ......    Gordon Reid 
Plornish    ......    Jonathan Keeble

Music by Mia Soteriou.  

Director: Janet Whitaker 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.

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Dickens' satire on the shortcomings of the government and 1850s society. With Ian McKellen

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