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