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Becky has plans to deal with an uncertain financial future. Narrated by Stephen Fry, stars Emma Fielding.

Becky has plans to deal with her uncertain financial future.

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
Hester …. Helen Longworth
Sir Pitt Crawley .... Trevor Peacock
Pitt .... Jon Glover
Lord Steyn …. David Calder
with Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Marc Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004.

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15 minutes

Last on

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