David Copperfield: Part 1 (BBC Four Sunday 23 April 2023)

David Copperfield: Part 1 airs Tonight on BBC Four.

Clara’s marriage to the high-minded but violent Edward Murdstone ends David’s peaceful boyhood in the village of Blunderstone with his mother and with their servant, Peggotty and her family, in Great Yarmouth. Murdstone and his sister Jane take up residence in the tranquil home and institute a strict new regime.

The first part of this all star Dicken’s adaptation made in 1999 and starring a young Daniel Radcliffe as David as a child.

With Daniel Radcliffe (Young David Copperfield), Imelda Staunton (Mrs. Micawber), Maggie Smith (Betsey Trotwood), Michael Elphick (Barkis), Zoë Wanamaker (Miss Murdstone), Ian McKellen (Creakle), Bob Hoskins (Micawber), Tom Wilkinson (Narrator), Pauline Quirke (Peggotty), Trevor Eve (Murdstone), Alun Armstrong (Dan Peggotty), Ian McNeice (Mr. Dick),

David Copperfield: Part 1 airs Sunday 23 April 2023 at 10.00pm on BBC Four

Part 1 of 2

The heartbreaking, semi-autobiographical story of a young boy who is banished by his stepfather after his mother’s death and who ultimately overcomes unimaginable obstacles, written by Charles Dickens.