James Mason

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Narrator

John Stride

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John Keats

Janina Faye

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Fanny Brawne

Richard Everett

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Tom Keats

Frank Barrie

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Joseph Severn

Petra Davies

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Keats's mother

Mark Dignam

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The Surgeon

John Rae

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First Critic

Ezra Barnes

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Keats (as a child)

Steven Butler

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Keats (as a youth)