Maureen Lipman

Narrator

Harriet Walter

Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot

John Sessions

George Henry Lewes

James Wilby

Herbert Spencer

David Walliams

John Chapman

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Gossip

David Bamber

Gossip

Janine Duvitski

Gossip

Michael Culkin

Liggins Conspirator

Felicity Dean

Edith Simcox

Richard Dillane

John Cross

Trevor Ray

D'Albert Durade

Glynn Williams

Thornie

Adrian Schiller

Man

Mary Downes