A Haunted Man with
Thomas Hardy , famed as a novelist, deeply reserved and secretive as a man, put his most private feelings into his poems, and the greatest of these were the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma. They had fallen in love in Cornwall and ended their days in a grim house outside Dorchester. The romance of their first meeting seemed far away ...
Narrated by CAROLINE BLAKISTON
Script by DENIS CONSTANDUROS and TRISTRAM POWELL in consultation with ROBERT GITTINGS
Film cameraman JOHN HOOPER Film editor JOHN NEEDHAM
Executive producer BILL MORTON
Directed by TRISTRAM POWELL. Preview: p10