Dickens’ second-last novel contains some of his greatest and most memorable scenes: the child Pip in a ghostly misty graveyard, coming upon escaped-convict Magwitch; cobwebbed spinster Miss Havisham, jilted at the altar and fretting away her spiteful days; the comedy of Pip’s London life; the simple goodness of his friend Joe Gargery.  David Lean’s black and white masterpiece of a film stars John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson.  It’s magnificent entertainment, which the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre is showing just for TASDAG.

Our lecture in the morning (see here for more details) introduces us to the characters that we’ll meet again in the afternoon.