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11. The Inheritance

Episode 11 of 20

Amelia must come to terms with some grim news, while Miss Crawley is pondering who will inherit her money. With Stephen Fry.

Amelia is coming to terms with some grim news from the battlefield at Waterloo and Becky is getting bored in Brighton.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray

Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt

Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia 鈥�. Katy Cavanagh
Miss Briggs .... Kate Buffery
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Miss Crawley ..... Margaret Tyzack
Pitt .... Jon Glover
John Osborne .... Geoffrey Whitehead
with Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Marc Beeby

First broadcast on 91福利社 Radio 4 in September 2004.

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