Little Dorrit - Episode 1 of 15 (26th October 2008) [720p HDTV (x264)]

Little Dorrit



Episode 1

Sunday 26 October

8:00pm - 9:00pm

BBC 1



Video: 1280x720 @ 25fps Avg 3270 kbps

Audio: AC3 2.0 384kbps 48khz

Source: HDTV 1080i

Codec: x264



A BBC Drama Productions large scale and ambitious adaptation of

Charles Dickens' classic Little Dorrit written by Andrew Davies.



Little Dorrit tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of

characters they encounter on their way from rags to riches and back again.



Our story starts with the birth of a baby in the Marshalsea debtor's prison.

This is Amy Dorrit, child of the Marshalsea, daughter of William Dorrit,

who is still in prison when we rejoin the story 20 years on.



Into their lives comes the dashing and adventurous Arthur Clennam, returning

to London after many long years in China and desperate to carry out the task

set by his father on his death bed: "Put it right Arthur. Your mother. Put it right."



When he sees 20-year-old Amy working for his formidable mother Mrs Clennam,

a woman not ordinarily given to charity, he begins to scent a connection.



Thus begins a journey from powerless to powerful, as the Dorrits' fortunes rise

and fall along with those of a cross-section of London society.



Landlords and rent collectors, plasterers, bankers, turnkeys, prisoners, gentlemen

and paupers, wastrels and dancing girls, engineers, artists, dowagers and butlers,

and a charismatic French villain – all trip in and out of the story as Arthur and Amy

walk the rocky road to love.