The Forstye Saga parts 1&2 open at The Park Theatre in London this Friday 11th October, with Joseph Millson as Soames Forsyte. For those who cant get to London to see The Forsyte Saga, there is consolation. Joseph is featured in both parts of BBC Radio 4 production of Little Dorrit. 

Joseph will play Merdle in a dramatisation of the famous Dickens novel, with part 1 broadcast on Radio 4 at 3pm on Sunday 13th October, with part 2 broadcasting on Sunday 20th October. 

Little Dorrit: Episode 1 Dickensian

Arthur Clennam returns to England after 20 years in China. He brings with him a watch, with ‘Do Not Forget’ worked in beads on the casing. Will his mother reveal the mystery behind the inscription? Does it relate to some wrong that has to be righted? And does the implacable Mrs Clennam know that the young seamstress who works for her is the daughter of William Dorrit, inmate of the Marshalsea debtors prison for over 20 years ?

Dickens’s 11th novel satirises the institutions of government and society, in particular the Circumlocution Office, a department run purely for the benefit of its incompetent officials, and the prisons where debtors were incarcerated, unable to work, until they had repaid their debts. Dickens writes from personal experience as his father spent time in the Marshalsea.

Charles Dickens/ Rigaud ..… Jason Watkins
Arthur Clennam ..… Samuel Barnett
Amy Dorrit ..… Kitty Archer
William Dorrit ..… Paul Bradley
Frederick Dorrit ..... David Tarkenter
Mrs Clennam ..… Claire Price
Merdle ….. Joseph Millson
Mrs General ..… Nisha Nayar
Pancks ..… Carl Prekopp
Maggy ..… Lauren Cornelius
Jerry Flintwich / Dan Doyce …. Shaun Mason
Affery ..… Sarah Thom
Tite Barnacle Snr. .… Ewan Bailey
Tite Barnacle Jr ..… Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Adapted for radio by Mike Walker Production Co-ordinator: Annie Keates-Thorpe Sound Design: Alisdair McGregor, Markus Andreas Director: Jeremy Mortimer Executive Producer: Joby Waldman