Sketches by Boz (Series 1) by Charles Dickens
Dramatized by Stephen Wyatt
Directed by Sally Avens
BBC Radio 4 - 01.09.1998
5 Episodes x 30mins
Boz was the pen name Charles Dickens used for a series of humorous pieces he wrote for The Morning Chronicle.
Episodes[]
Episode 1 - 01.09.1998 - The Tuggses At Ramsgate - It seems that money cannot buy you love in the first of five comic stories from the pen of Charles Dickens.
Cast:
- Nicholas Farrell as the voice of Boz.
- Christopher Hancock
- Frances Jeater
- Colleen Prendergast
Episode 2 - 08.09.1998 - The Bloomsbury Christening - In the second of Charles Dickens's five comic tales, the arrival of a bouncing baby boy is good news indeed - unless you are the miserable Nicodemus Dumps.
Cast:
- Nicholas Farrell
- Geoffrey Whitehead
- Charlie Simpson
Episode 3 - 15.09.1998 - The Great Winglebury Duel - Mr Alexander Trott finds it possible to become bethrothed in the most trying of circumstances.
Cast:
- Nicholas Farrell
- Peter Gunn
- Julia Deakin
Episode 4 - 22.09.1998 - The Private Theatricals Of Mrs Joseph Porter - The British love for amateur dramatics takes over a household with farcical results.
Cast:
- Nicholas Farrell
- Geoffrey Whitehead
- Frances Jeater
- David Antrobus
Episode 5 - 29.09.1998 - Mr Watkins Tottle - All Mr Tottle wants is to enter the blessed state of matrimony - but the course of true love never did run smooth.
Cast:
- Nicholas Farrell
- David Collings
- John Hartley
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References[]
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