by GEORGE ELIOT : adapted as a serial in 12 parts by HOWARD AGG with Angela Pleasence , Martin Jarvis Megs Jenkins and Anthony Bate 5: Cold Counsel
Tom had so often thought how joyful he should be the day he left school ' for good! ' And now his school-years seemed like a holiday that had come to an end. He and Maggie had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.
Produced by JANE GRAHAM I
(Megs Jenkins is in ' The Wins-low Boy ' at the New Theatre, London)