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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鈥..David Morrissey Louisa Gradgrind鈥..Rachel Harper Tom Gradgrind鈥..Ike Bennett Josiah Bounderby鈥..Shaun Dooley Sissy Jupe鈥..Janey Orchard Mrs Sparsit鈥..Jan Ravens James Harthouse鈥..Will Close Stephen Blackpool鈥..Arthur Hughes Rachael鈥..Claire Cage Mrs Gradgrind/Margaret/Josephine鈥..Julie Barclay Mr M鈥機hoakumchild/Slackbridge/Collins鈥..Richard Elfyn Bitzer鈥..Aaron Anthony Sleary鈥..Patrick Robinson Production co-ordinators Lindsay Rees and Eleri Sydney McAuliffe Sound by Rhys Morris, Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson Directed by Emma Harding, 麻豆社 Audio Wales
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