English File | Classic Texts: Great Expectations
Based on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Charting Pip's often painful journey of self-discovery, from childhood on the marshes to a life of 'great expectations'.
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Content
- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Two
- Duration: 29'33''
- Broadcast date: 1991
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UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
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