Elenco

• Linus Roache — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Samantha Morton — Sara Coleridge
• Emily Woof — Dorothy Wordsworth
• Dexter Fletcher — Humphry Davy
• Andy Serkis — John Thelwall
• Emma Fielding — Mary Wordsworth
• William Scott-Masson — Tom Poole
• Clive Merrison — Dr Gillman
• Juno Temple — Emma Southey
• John Hannah — William Wordsworth
• Andrea Lowe — Edith Southey
• Samuel West — Robert Southey
• Colin McCredie — Messenger
• John Kane — Jones
• Michael N. Harbour — Walsh
• John Standing — Rev Holland
• Glyn Owen — Fisherman
• Jason Quick — Hartley Coleridge, aged 18 months
• Erik McKay — Darcy Sinclair