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The Wife

Duration: 1 hour, 32 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Available for 4 months

Successful writer Joe Castleman is delighted to receive an early morning telephone call from Sweden informing him that he has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. His steadfast wife Joan is equally delighted, but as she prepares to travel to Stockholm to support and encourage her husband, she reflects on her life from when she first met Joe, her married literature tutor with whom she embarks on the affair which would change the course of their lives. Show less

Contributors

Joan Castleman:
Glenn Close
Joe Castleman:
Jonathan Pryce
Young Joan:
Annie Starke
Young Joe:
Harry Lloyd
Nathanial Bone:
Christian Slater
Walter Bark:
Johan Widerberg
David Castleman:
Max Irons
Elaine Mozell:
Elizabeth McGovern
Director:
Bjorn Runge

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