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Episode 5

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Last broadcast on Fri, 16 Jan 2009, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4.

Synopsis

Dramatised by Elizabeth Kuti from by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's 18th-century 'Spectator' essays.

As his fortieth birthday arrives, Gilbert's world seems to be in pieces, but perhaps things are not all that they appear.

Mr Spectator ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Gilbert ...... Richard Lumsden
Kitty ...... Amy Marston
Jonathan ...... Sam Troughton
Coffee boy ...... Samuel Barnett
Gravedigger ...... Chris McHallem
Isabel ...... Emma Bolger
Jacob ...... Daniel Walsh
Aggie ...... Laura Conway

Directed by Heather Larmour.

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  1. Fri 16 Jan 2009
    19:45
    BBC Radio 4

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