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