with John Pitman
A series of six programmes which follow the fortunes of people who have decided to risk a dramatic change in their lives.
2:Poverty, Chastity, Obedience
For three years Elizabeth Edwards , 24, has been torn between her family and her vocation. Her parents want her to go on living with them - but she wants to join a contemplative order and become a nun.
Last year she made her decision. Despite the distress to her parents, Elizabeth applied to enter a Benedictine convent in Oxford-shire - and was accepted. ' I love my parents, but this had to come first,' she says. ' I knew I had to make the decision otherwise I'd regret it for the rest of my life.'
Elizabeth, a secretary in television drama, has an identical twin sister, Ann, who has been standing by her throughout the conflict in the family. The worldly sacrifices Elizabeth is making are underlined by the fact that her twin is married and expecting a baby.
This is the story of Elizabeth's last few weeks of freedom and her first year in the convent where she hopes to devote the rest of her life to prayer.
Film editor ROY FRY
Series producer ADAM CLAPHAM Producer PATRICIA HOULIHAN