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11. The Inheritance
Episode 11 of 20
Amelia must come to terms with some grim news, while Miss Crawley is pondering who will inherit her money. With Stephen Fry.
Amelia is coming to terms with some grim news from the battlefield at Waterloo and Becky is getting bored in Brighton.
Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt
Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia …. Katy Cavanagh
Miss Briggs .... Kate Buffery
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Miss Crawley ..... Margaret Tyzack
Pitt .... Jon Glover
John Osborne .... Geoffrey Whitehead
with Stephen Fry as the narrator
Director Marc Beeby
First broadcast on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4 in September 2004.
Last on
Tue 17 May 2022
02:15
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