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David Copperfield
10:10 pm - 11:40 pm Wednesday, November 18
David Copperfield
Season 1 · Episode 1
The rural idyll of eight-year-old David Copperfield is brought to an abrupt end when his widowed mother Clara remarries. Young David takes an instant dislike to Mr Murdstone, his new stepfather, and the newcomer proves the feeling is more than mutual when he send the lad away to a boarding school run by a ruthless headmaster. Adaptation of the Dickens classic, starring a pre-Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe, with Pauline Quirke, Maggie Smith. Trevor Eve and Ian McKellen
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- Daniel Radcliffe — Actor as Young David
- Emilia Fox — Actor as Clara Copperfield
- Maggie Smith — Actor as Betsey Trotwood
- Pauline Quirke — Actor as Peggotty
- Trevor Eve — Actor as Edward Murdstone
- Alun Armstrong — Actor as Dan Peggotty
- Laura Harling — Actor as Emily
- Zoe Wanamaker — Actor as Jane Murdstone
- Bob Hoskins — Actor as Wilkins Micawber
- Ian McKellen — Actor as Mr Creakle
- Harry Lloyd — Actor as James Steerforth
- Charles Dickens — Writer
- Adrian Hodges — Dramatised by
- Simon Curtis — Director
- Rebecca Eaton — Executive producer
- Jane Tranter — Executive producer
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