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A film biography by David Jones with Freddie Jones as John Clare "I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows" (John Clare) John Clare (1792-1864), farm labourer, had three obsessions: his youthful love for Mary Joyce, the countryside of his native Northamptonshire, and the need to celebrate both in his poetry. Clare cracked under the increasing strain of poverty and neglect, and spent the last 23 years of his life in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. He imagined himself to be Lord Byron, a bigamist, and a prize-fighter; but the poems of his madness are perhaps the most remarkable he ever wrote. "Clare's asylum foretells our need for an asylum, his deprivation foretells our deprivation" (Geoffrey Grigson) Commentary spoken by Tony Church (from BBC Midlands) (David Jones and Patrick Stewart are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Tony Church appears by permission of the Northcott Theatre, Exeter)

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Freddie Jones

John Clare

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Gerald Lawson

Parker, Clare's Father

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Elizabeth Croft

Anne, Clare's Mother

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Martin Howells

Young Clare

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Sharon Gurney

Mary Joyce

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Jenny Heslewood

Patty Clare

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Jonathan Dennis

Marquis of Exeter

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Brian Tully

Taylor, Clare's Publisher

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Patrick Stewart

Cyrus Redding

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Patrick Godfrey

WF Knight

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Stanley Lebor

Shylock

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Mary Griffiths

Schoolteacher

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Betty Turner

Granny Bains

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Alan Stuart

Mr Drury

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Philip Garston-Jones

Mr Newcombe

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John Hart Dyke

Dr Allen

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Cameron Miller

Dr Skrimshire

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Penelope Keith

Agnes Strickland

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Tony Church

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