The first in a new series of Forty Minutes documentary films.
'I would have thought that at least 50 per cent of married men in this country either had a mistress, or have one, or will have one....'
'I think a mistress puts a bit of spark back into a marriage, especially a marriage that's on the wane.'
'Some wives are more than pleased if their husbands have got a mistress. It takes the strain off their own relationship.'
Three mistresses from very different backgrounds talk frankly, ruefully and often wittily about their long-term liaisons with married men. The first is a very modem mistress, who openly shares the man in her life with his legal wife. The second has always played a secondary role, her life a lonely vigil, redeemed only by rare and brief encounters. The third enjoyed all the pleasures of being pampered, until she became pregnant, when she became less his mistress, and more the mother of his secret family. All talk shrewdly of men and their weaknesses, of secrecy and discovery, of betrayal and abandonment, and of the eternal triangle - husband, wife, mistress.
Film editor RICHARD BRUNSKILL
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer ROBYN WALLIS
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