A second chance to see George Eliot 's novel, adapted for television in six parts by Andrew Davies , first screened last Wednesday on BBC2.
1: England 1829 - a new age is dawning. The old stagecoach is about to be challenged by the new railway. Political reform is in the air. In Middlemarch, young idealists like D Lydgate and Dorothea Brooke look forward to the future inspired by visions of a better society and greater fulfilment.
(For cast and part 2, see Wednesdayat
9.30pm on BBC2) Stereo