I believe we must have missed Bleak House when it was firs shown on the BBC, and that was why we bought the DVD, maybe thirteen or fourteen years ago. We enjoyed it then and were equally impressed watching it again. The cast were all excellent, responding brilliantly to the adaptation by Andrew Davies, the production by Nigel Stafford-Clark and the direction by Justin Chadwick. Every actor rose to the occasion, even those with small parts such as an unrecognisable Sheila Hancock as Mr Guppy's mother. On the subject of names, did Charles Dickens make up most of these:
Sir Leicester and Lady Dedlock (Timothy West and Gillian Anderson)
Mr Tulkinghorn (Charles Dance)
John Jarndyce (Denis Lawson)
Clamb (John Georgeson)
Guppy (Burn Gorman)
Miss Flite (Pauline Collins)
Smallweed (Phil Davis)
Harold Skimpole (Nathaniel Parker)
Bucket (Alan Armstrong)
Mrs Rouncewell (Anne Reid)
At least Dickens gave fairly ordinary names to leads Esther Summerson (Anna Maxwell Martin), Ada Clare (Carey Mulligan) and Richard Carstone (Patrick Kennedy).
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