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BERTIE CARVEL and Eddie Marsan (right and far right respectively), who will take the title roles in the BBC television adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

The pair play 19th-century magicians who use their powers to help England in the Napoleonic Wars.

The book was 800 pages long, so a lot happens — which is why screenwriter Peter Harness has spread the tale across seven one-hour episodes.

Marsan — one of the best character actors working today — will play Norrell, a master magician, who takes on the dilettante Jonathan Strange as a pupil.

Carvel, who won acclaim for his performance as Miss Trunchbull in the hit stage musical Matilda, will play Strange.

Toby Haynes will have a cast read-through on October 23 before shooting on locations in Leeds, Montreal and Venice.

The mini-series is being produced by the BBC and Cuba Pictures in conjunction with BBC America.

TOM EDDEN, who wowed audiences as the hapless waiter Alfie in the National Theatre’s glorious comedy One Man, Two Guvnors in London and New York. He will play Fagin in director Daniel Evans’s Sheffield Theatres production of Oliver! which begins performances on November 29 at the Crucible. Hayley Galvin will play Nancy, Ben Richards takes on Bill Sikes, Samual Bailey and Jack Skilbeck Dunn will share the part of Oliver, and Jack Armstrong and Travis Caddy will alternate as the Artful Dodger.

KATHY BURKE, who has assembled her cast to star in Mary J. O’Malley’s convent school-set comedy Once A Catholic.

The girls of Our Lady of Fatima are taught all the usual dogma by the nuns — but all they can think about i s the rock music that’s about to shake their world — and boys.

The cast includes Richard Bremmer, Calum Callaghan, Sean Campion, Clare Cathcart, Oliver Coopersmith, Kate Lock, Molly Logan, Amy Morgan, Katherine Rose Morley and Cecilia Noble.

Previews start at the Tricycle Theatre from November 21.