For those of you who enjoy period dramas you will hopefully have caught the first hour episode of Little Dorrit on Sunday night (if not check out BBC iplayer). Tomorrow night (Thursday) on BBC1 at 8:30pm the series goes into half hour soap sized episodes.
There are fifteen parts to the drama. I've already named some of the actors so I won't repeat myself, but over the cut is the synopsis if you have never read this classic by Charles Dickens.
This timeless rags-to-riches story concerns the vacillating fortunes of the Dorrit family.
The kind-hearted Amy - the Little Dorrit of the title - looks after her proud father, William who is a long-term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London.
But their fate is transformed by the unexpected arrival from overseas of the benevolent Arthur Clennam who is determined to solve the mystery of his father's dying words: "Put it right, Arthur."
He is sure this phrase is in some way connected to the Dorrits' plight and sets about rectifying the situation – discovering they are sitting on a huge fortune, a fact which thrusts the family into the upper echelons of society.
As the Dorrits meet a variety of characters from poor to rich, a deep bond grows between Arthur and Amy, and a dark villain Rigaud threatens to spill a long-held family secret.
[via BBC Press Office]
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