Bleak House filmed in 1920 and 1922. The latter version featured Sybil Thorndike as Lady Dedlock. In 1928, a short film made in the UK in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process starred Bransby Williams as Grandfather Smallweed. In 1998, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of five hour-long episodes, starring Michael Kitchen as John Jarndyce. The BBC has produced three television adaptations of "Bleak House". The first serial, "Bleak House", was broadcast in 1959 in eleven half-hour episodes. The second "Bleak House", starring Diana Rigg and Denholm Elliott, aired in 1985 as an eight-part series. In 2005, the third "Bleak House" was
My Companions in the Bleak House in the Bleak House" a "stunning tour-de-force". It won the Tom Stoppard Prize in 1984 for the best work of Czechoslovak unofficial literature. Attention has been paid to the fact that the book focuses exclusively on the stories of women, and particularly women in prison. "My Companions in the Bleak House" was made into a four-part miniseries for Czech Television in 1992, starring Ivana Chýlková. The four 70-minute episodes were written by Kantůrková with Václav Šašek. They were re-broadcast in 2001 and again in 2017, in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Charter 77. At the 1994 Festival International de