Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Dramatized by Mike Walker
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole
Music by Roger Goula
BBC Radio 4 - Womans Hour Drama
20 x 15mins episodes broadcast from 09.11.2009 to 04.12.2009
An evocative dramatization of the Dickens classic.
Episodes[]
- Episode 01 09.11.2009 A father and daughter on the Thames at night, and tied to their boat a lifeless shape bobs in the water.
- Episode 02 10.11.2009 How old John Harmon made his money out of rubbish, and the will he left to spite his son.
- Episode 03 11.11.2009 With young John Harmon presumed drowned, the Boffins have inherited old Harmon's fortune.
- Episode 04 12.11.2009 Silas Wegg, a literary man with a wooden leg, finds employment with the Golden Dustman.
- Episode 05 13.11.2009 There is a rumour on the river that Gaffer Hexam might have had a hand in John Harmon's death.
- Episode 06 16.11.2009 Bella Wilfer, whose life has become decidedly more comfortable, confides in her father.
- Episode 07 17.11.2009 A new life for Lizzie Hexam, a new mentor for Charlie, and new complications.
- Episode 08 18.11.2009 Wegg comes to an agreement with Venus, as Bradley tries to do likewise with Eugene Wrayburn.
- Episode 09 19.11.2009 John Rokesmith sets about straightening his very untidy life.
- Episode 10 20.11.2009 Bradley Headstone has a very clear picture of his future, and enlists Charlie Hexam to help him achieve it.
- Episode 11 23.11.2009 Bella visits her parents and tries her hand at cooking, with mixed results.
- Episode 12 24.11.2009 Rogue Riderhood comes face to face with fate on a dark Thames night.
- Episode 13 25.11.2009 Silas Wegg is determined to find a copy of old Harmon's will.
- Episode 14 26.11.2009 Lizzie Hexam and Bella Wilfer meet at last, at a funeral in a country churchyard.
- Episode 15 27.11.2009 Impetuous and headstrong Bella Wilfer finally takes a stand.
- Episode 16 30.11.2009 Eugene heads upstream looking for Lizzie, unaware of the man in the shadows. Boffin, meanwhile, has an appointment with Wegg.
- Episode 17 01.12.2009 Eugene finds Lizzie, but it looks as if John may have lost Bella.
- Episode 18 02.12.2009 Two declarations of love that couldn't be more different, as John, Bella, Eugene and Lizzie's streams cross.
- Episode 19 03.12.2009 Charlie visits Bradley for the last time, and Mortimer Lightwood meets John Rokesmith for what should be the first.
- Episode 20 04.12.2009 Truths that seemed drowned finally come to the surface.