Great Expectations (2006)

Based on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Young Pip is an orphan living with his shrewish sister and her kindly blacksmith husband. One Christmas Eve he is surprised by a convict and forced to steal for him.

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  • Type: Adaptation
  • Channel: BBC Radio 4
  • Duration: 56'44''
  • Broadcast date: 2006
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UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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