Documentary telling the life story of cult author and renowned fell-walker Alfred Wainwright in England's Lake District.

Richard Albrecht
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Alfred Wainwright
as Self (archive footage)

Nik Wood-Jones
as Alfred Wainwright (as Nik Wood Jones)

Jenny Hull
as Betty Wainwright

Jack Shalloo
as Young Wainwright

Sarah Marsland
as Little Girl

John Morgan
as Book Publisher

Linda McCormack
as Ruth (voice)

Sue Lawley
as Self - Presenter, 'Desert Island Discs', 1988-2006

Hunter Davies
as Self - Wainwright's Biographer