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Horatio Sparkins

Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz - Series 2
Episode 5 of 5

The socially ambitious Maldertons are delighted when a mystery suitor courts their unmarried daughter. Stars David Haig.

The socially ambitious Maldertons are delighted when their unmarried daughter receives the attentions of the romantic Mr Sparkins.

But who exactly is he?

Gloriously comic stories of London Life by Charles Dickens - dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Boz ...... Nicholas Farrell
Mr Malderton ...... DavidHaig
Mrs Malderton ...... Tessa Worsley
Teresa Malderton ...... Sarah-Jane Holm
Thomas Malderton ...... Adrian Schiller
Horatio Sparkins ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Flamwell ...... Patrick Barlow

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in August 1999.

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