In the second of six programmes
Richard Mullen considers aspects of 19th-century life seen through the eyes of this fascinating, funny, opinionated and frequently far-seeing author.
"From the day on which I set foot in Ireland all the suffering and inward remorse of the first 26 years of my life went away from me." Trollope spent over a quarter of his life in Ireland, a country he came to love, though not uncritically.
With Paul Rogers as Anthony Trollope. Producer John Knight