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Kate Dickens tells the story of her father鈥檚 final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham.

It is Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears.

Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin鈥檚 uncle Jasper?

In this episode, Edwin visits his fianc茅 Rosa at Miss Twinkleton鈥檚 Academy, but his gift of a pair of gloves for every one of her 19 years is not as successful as he had hoped.

In an opium den near London鈥檚 docks, Princess Puffer teases secrets from Edwin鈥檚 uncle, John Jasper.

Dickens鈥檚 last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are.

Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Written by Charles Dickens and dramatised in ten parts by Mike Walker.

Narrated by Dickens鈥檚 daughter Kate, witness to her father鈥檚 final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father鈥檚 character.

Kate Dickens ...鈥� Pippa Nixon
John Jasper ...鈥� Joel McCormack
Edwin Drood ...鈥� Iwan Davies
Rosa Bud ...鈥� Isabella Inchbald
Princess Puffer ...鈥� Rachel Atkins

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

A 成人快手 Cymru Wales production for 成人快手 Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

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