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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 A Reduced Listening production for ��ѿ��ý Radio 4 Jason Watkins (The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, Coma, W1A) is Dickens, who narrates the story, as well as the unscrupulous Rigaud. Samuel Barnett (Twenty Twelve, Penny Dreadful, Dirk Gently) is Arthur Clennam, and Claire Price (Rebus, ��ѿ��ý Fires) plays Mrs Clennam. Paul Bradley (Eastenders, Holby City) is William Dorrit, and Kitty Archer (The Pursuit of Love, and recipient of the Ian Charleson Award for her role in Tartuffe at the National Theatre) is Amy Dorrit. Joseph Millson (Peak Practice, Holby City) is Merdle, Nisha Nayar (The Story of Tracy Beaker, Rosy Maloney) is Mrs General, Lauren Cornelius (That's What She Said, A Date with Shillelagh, Twin Leaps) is Maggy. Mike Walker has written many original radio dramas and dramatisations. Little Dorrit is the eighth Dickens novel he has dramatised for ��ѿ��ý Radio.