On screen
Cast
24 credited performers
Artwork unavailable
Peter Ackroyd
Self — Presenter
Anton Lesser
Charles Dickens
Miriam Margolyes
Catherine Dickens
Kenneth Cranham
John Forster
Helen McCrory
Kate Dickens
Geoffrey Palmer
Thackeray
Jack Davenport
Charley Dickens
Natasha Little
Ellen Ternan
Artwork unavailable
Avril Ellis
Frances Ternan
Christopher Ettridge
John Byrne
Timothy West
John Dickens
Prunella Scales
Elizabeth Dickens
Artwork unavailable
Joseph Traynor
Young Charles
Artwork unavailable
Tom Bowles
Lawrence Mercer
Jack Chissick
Bob Fagin
Trevor Peacock
William Barker
Lucy Davenport
Mary Hogarth
Artwork unavailable
Rachel Swann
Young Catherine
Artwork unavailable
Peter Mair
Panto Dame
Phyllis Logan
Georgina Hogarth
Robin Soans
George Reynolds
Harry Ditson
American Journalist
Sonia Ritter
Former Prostitute
Sophie Duval
Actress