Richard Albrecht

Self - Narrator (voice)

Alfred Wainwright (100)

Self (archive footage)

Nik Wood-Jones

Alfred Wainwright (as Nik Wood Jones)

Jenny Hull

Betty Wainwright

Jack Shalloo (20)

Young Wainwright

Sarah Marsland

Little Girl

John Morgan

Book Publisher

Linda McCormack

Ruth (voice)

Sue Lawley (60)

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