by George Eliot dramatised in 12 parts by Hallam Tennyson
with Elizabeth Bell, Steven Pacey, Russell Dixon, Judith Arthy and Jill Balcon as George Eliot

Dorothea has learnt that Casaubon has included a clause in his will disinheriting her should she marry Will Ladislaw - a clause that Will himself knows nothing about. Mr Bulstrode, a pillar of Middlemarch respectability, suddenly finds that his none too savoury past is about to overtake him.

(BBC Manchester)
(Repeated: Tues 3.2 pm)
(A Portrait of George Eliot on Wed at 7.45 pm)