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Status
Released
Release
2007
Runtime
1h
Documentary telling the life story of cult author and renowned fell-walker Alfred Wainwright in England's Lake District.
16 Cast Members
Richard Albrecht
Self - Narrator (voice)
Alfred Wainwright
Self (archive footage)
Nik Wood-Jones
Alfred Wainwright (as Nik Wood Jones)
Jenny Hull
Betty Wainwright
Jack Shalloo
Young Wainwright
Sarah Marsland
Little Girl
John Morgan
Book Publisher
Linda McCormack
Ruth (voice)
Sue Lawley
Self - Presenter, 'Desert Island Discs', 1988-2006
Hunter Davies
Self - Wainwright's Biographer
Eric Robson
Self - Broadcaster and Writer
Betty Wainwright
Self - Wainwright's Widow
Jane King
Self - Wainwright's Stepdaughter
Mary Burkett
Self - Wainwright's Friend (as Mary Burkett OBE)
Molly Lefebure
Self - Novellist and Wainwright's Friend
John Estensen
Self - Former Manager, Animal Rescue, Cumbria