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At the same time all Mr Bumble wants is , but she’s adept at promising all sorts of earthly pleasures which somehow always remain out of his reach.

Richard trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He starred as Allan Ashburn in the ITV's Fat Friends, Bernard Green 大象传媒 One's Common as Muck and Mad Mick in the 大象传媒 Two's The Ritz. His other television work includes roles in Tom Jones, Nature Boy, and ITV’s forthcoming Jericho.

Richard’s most recent film role has been as Buck in Rise of The Planet of The Apes. Some of his other film credits include, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Erik The Viking, The Pianist, The Brothers Grimm, The Physician and Faintheart.

He is also the voice of Daddy Pig in the children's series .

Dickens’s Mrs Bumble is a less developed comic figure that in Dickensian. Though in Oliver Twist Mr Bumble often gets the best lines, Mrs Bumble has her day in the series.

Here Charles Dickens treats us to the beginning of Mr Bumble’s courtship of widow Mrs Corney, (Mrs Bumble to be):

"'Oh, come in with you!' said Mrs. Corney, sharply. 'Some of the old women dying, I suppose. They always die when I'm at meals. Don't stand there, letting the cold air in, don't. What's amiss now, eh?'

'Nothing, ma'am, nothing,' replied a man's voice.

'Dear me!' exclaimed the matron, in a much sweeter tone, 'is that Mr. Bumble?’"

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 23.

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