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Orphan Becky Sharp begins her journey in society. Stephen Fry narrates the Victorian comic tale. With Emma Fielding.

Orphan Becky Sharp begins her journey in society.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Omnibus of the first five of twenty episodes.

Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia Sedley ... Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne ... Nicholas Boulton
Jos Sedley .... Toby Jones
Miss Pinkerton .... Sandy Walsh
Miss Jemima/Lady Crawley .... Joanna McCallum
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Sir Pitt Crawley .... Trevor Peacock
Pitt .... Jon Glover
Miss Crawley ..... Margaret Tyzack
Rawdon Crawley .... Ray Coulthard
Mrs Bute Crawley ..... Jemma Churchill
Maria Osborne .....Alice Hart
John Osborne .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Ensign Stubble ..... Stephen Hogan
Miss Briggs .... Kate Buffery

Director: Claire Grove

First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2004.

1 hour, 10 minutes

Last on

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