David Copperfield

10:10 PM to 11:40 PM
Wednesday 18 November
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The rural idyll of eight-year-old David Copperfield is brought to an abrupt end when his widowed mother Clara remarries. Young David takes an instant dislike to Mr Murdstone, his new stepfather, and the newcomer proves the feeling is more than mutual when he send the lad away to a boarding school run by a ruthless headmaster. Adaptation of the Dickens classic, starring a pre-Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe, with Pauline Quirke, Maggie Smith. Trevor Eve and Ian McKellen

David Copperfield airs on BBC Four HD at 10:10 PM, Wednesday 18 November. (Subtitles, audio description.)
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Daniel Radcliffe
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Emilia Fox
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Maggie Smith
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