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Episode 6

Avoiding Quilp, Little Nell and her Grandfather leave the shop and flee. Dickens dramatisation with Trevor Peacock. From December 2002.

Avoiding evil moneylender Quilp, debt-ridden Little Nell and her Grandfather escape the shop and flee.

Starring Emily Chennery as Nell, Alex Jennings as the Narrator, Trevor Peacock as Grandfather, Daniel Bliss as Kit, Phil Daniels as Daniel Quilp, Ben Crowe as Dick Swiveller and Gerard McDermott as Giant/Grinder.

Charles Dickens's fourth novel was published in 1841.

Dramatised in 25 episodes by Mike Walker.

Music by Melanie Pappenheim and Anne Wood.

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.

15 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Mon 5 Jan 200910:00
  • Mon 5 Jan 200921:00
  • Tue 6 Jan 200902:00
  • Mon 9 Jan 201214:00
  • Mon 12 Mar 201814:30
  • Tue 13 Mar 201802:30