Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the scullery maid, Becky, her friends Ermengarde and Lottie, a little monkey, a lascar, and the mysterious man next door.

• Amelia Shankley
• Maureen Lipman
• Miriam Margolyes
• Annette Badland
• Natalie Abbott
• Alison Reynolds
• Katrina Heath
• Joanna Dukes