Desperate Romantics

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Rafe Spall

Aidan Turner

Samuel Barnett

Sam Crane

Tom Hollander

Samuel West

Amy Manson

Jennie Jacques

Phil Davis

Ian Puleston-Davies

Polly Kemp

Josie Farmiloe

Richenda Carey

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Ben Evans

Diarmuid Lawrence

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Mark Benton

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Paul Gay

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Kath Burlinson

Desperate Romantics: Episode 4

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Episode 4

BBC Two - Desperate Romantics, Episode 4

Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.

While Hunt is away, Fred sets out to fulfil his promise to look after Annie but, before he knows what is happening, she seduces him. Upon his return, Hunt asks Annie to marry him.

While Hunt is far away in the Holy Land, Fred sets out to fulfil his promise to look after Annie and prevent her from getting up to mischief. But Annie proves too hot to handle: before Fred knows what's what, she has seduced him. Hunt returns from the Holy Land none the wiser and is in fact so taken with Annie's improved deportment and education under Fred's care that he asks her to marry him.

Rossetti, meanwhile, receives an encouraging visit from Ruskin who, with Millais no longer on his books, is looking for a new protege. Rossetti is so excited by the prospect of Ruskin's patronage that he finally pops the question to Lizzie, who is as delighted with his proposal as Annie is with Hunt's. 

In spite of newlywed Millais's smug insistence that in married life lies true happiness, both Hunt and Rossetti begin to waver at the prospect of what lies ahead. Could it be that Hunt prefers the idea of Annie the whore to that of Annie the wife? Is Rossetti capable of taking on responsibility and a conventional role in life? Fred watches on as his friends start to panic, but can he hold his own nerve and keep his affair with Annie a secret from his friend 'Maniac' Hunt?

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