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The insanely irritating advertisements for BBC Sounds – 30 seconds to make the spirits sink – have recently included one exhorting us to watch the new BBC adaptation of Great Expectations – by the man who brought us Peaky Blinders! It’s a real achievement to lose every vestige of humour in Great Expectations Poor Dickens can’t

Here’s a handy who’s who for the cast of BBC One’s latest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

An orphan boy meets an escaped convict, a crazed rich woman, a bewitching girl, and grows up to have great expectations of wealth from a mysterious patron, on GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens’ remarkable tale of rags to riches to self-knowledge, starring Gillian Anderson (THE X-FILES, BLEAK HOUSE), David Suchet, Ray Winstone, and Douglas Booth. Anderson appears as one of Dickens’ most haunting creations: Miss Havisham, a bride-to-be who was jilted at the altar years before and has worn he...

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With ‘fictional’ Christmas parties in the news, it seemed only right to pick out for Boris Johnson some other festive shindigs that were figments of the imagination