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Jasper鈥檚 plans come to a head as the climax to the story is played out at the top of the cathedral tower.

Dickens鈥檚 last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are.

Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Written by Charles Dickens and dramatised by Mike Walker.

Narrated by Dickens鈥檚 daughter Kate, witness to her father鈥檚 final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father鈥檚 character.

Kate Dickens ...鈥� Pippa Nixon
John Jasper ...鈥� Joel McCormack
Rosa Bud ...鈥� Isabella Inchbald
Neville Landless ...鈥� Maanuv Thiara
Helena Landless ...鈥� Halema Hussain
Reverend Crisparkle .鈥�.. Damian Lynch
Deputy Winks ...鈥� Aaron Gelkoff
Station Master ...鈥� Wilf Scolding

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

A 麻豆社 Cymru Wales production for 麻豆社 Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.