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10. Cathedral Tower

Episode 10 of 10

The net is closing on John Jasper. But can he be stopped before a second murder is committed? Starring Joel McCormack.

Jasper’s plans come to a head as the climax to the story is played out at the top of the cathedral tower.

Dickens’s last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are.

Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Written by Charles Dickens and dramatised by Mike Walker.

Narrated by Dickens’s daughter Kate, witness to her father’s final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Kate Dickens ...… Pippa Nixon
John Jasper ...… Joel McCormack
Rosa Bud ...… Isabella Inchbald
Neville Landless ...… Maanuv Thiara
Helena Landless ...… Halema Hussain
Reverend Crisparkle .….. Damian Lynch
Deputy Winks ...… Aaron Gelkoff
Station Master ...… Wilf Scolding

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

14 minutes

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Sat 11 Jan 202503:45
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