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| Can Sarah Phelps' adaptation live up to previous outings of Dickens greats? © BBC 2011 |
At last, another big Dickensian on the BBC. Having been
blown away in my mid-teens by Andrew Davies’ gaspingly epic Bleak House (just look at the cast list
– 50 names in the principal corps and not one of them without a Wikipedia
article) and the slightly smaller but no less enjoyable Little Dorrit in 2008, it’s about time. But does this three-hour
tiddler show the BBC tightening its purse strings, or a lesser commitment to
gargantuan period storytelling? Let’s hope not.
