Maureen Lipman
Narrator
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Gossip
Michael Culkin
Liggins Conspirator
Harriet Walter
Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
David Bamber
Gossip
John Sessions
George Henry Lewes
James Wilby
Herbert Spencer
Felicity Dean
Edith Simcox
David Walliams
John Chapman
Janine Duvitski
Gossip
Richard Dillane
John Cross
Adrian Schiller
Man