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"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." Louisa and Tom have grown up in the rigid, utilitarian system of their father, Thomas Gradgrind. Hoping to help her brother, Louisa has entered into a loveless marriage with Coketown banker and mill-owner, Bounderby. But when a millworker is suspected of robbing the bank, Louisa starts to fear that her brother may have had a hand in the plot. And she also encounters temptations of her own. Charles Dickens's 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. 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 Josephine ….. Julie Barclay 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, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Wales
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