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The latest adaptation of Great Expectations (BBC l), starring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, allows oldies a trip down memory lane.

Who was your favourite Miss H? Was it Martita Hunt in 1946, Margaret Leighton in 1974, Joan Hickson in 1981, Jean Simmonds in 1989, Charlotte Rampling in 1998 or Gillian Anderson in 2011? I remember the outcry over the casting of Anderson who, at 44, was considered too young to play part of the desiccated virgin – but according to

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