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"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." Charles Dickens' novel - subtitled 'For These Times' - is a vivid story for our own age - a short, sharp satire of target-driven education, business, and the denial of the imagination. Headmaster Thomas Gradgrind has developed a rigid, facts-driven curriculum for his school. And at home, he raises his two children, Tom and Louisa, within a similar system of utilitarian metrics. But the human spirit has an inherent thirst for wonder and Louisa struggles inside the constraints of her education. Dramatised by Graham White Thomas Gradgrind…..David Morrissey Louisa Gradgrind…..Rachel Harper Tom Gradgrind…..Ike Bennett Josiah Bounderby…..Shaun Dooley Sissy Jupe…..Janey Orchard Mrs Sparsit…..Jan Ravens James Harthouse…..Will Close Stephen Blackpool…..Arthur Hughes Rachael…..Claire Cage Mrs Gradgrind/Margaret/Josephine…..Julie Barclay Mr M’Choakumchild/Slackbridge/Collins…..Richard Elfyn Bitzer…..Aaron Anthony Sleary…..Patrick Robinson Production co-ordinators Lindsay Rees and Eleri Sydney McAuliffe Sound by Rhys Morris, Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson Directed by Emma Harding, ��ѿ��ý Audio Wales