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Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

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

Psychological drama. A biographer, hearing the previously untold dark and disturbing life story of a dying novelist, is compelled to finally face the trauma of her own past. Show more

Contributors

Director:
James Kent
Margaret Lea:
Olivia Colman
Vida Winter:
Vanessa Redgrave
Young Adeline / Vida:
Sophie Turner
Hester Barrow:
Alexandra Roach
John the Dig:
Robert Pugh
Isabelle March:
Emily Beecham
Charlie Angelfield:
Michael Jibson
Dr Mawsley:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Ambrose Proctor:
Adam Long
Young Margaret:
Isabel Barlow
Aurelius Love:
Gordon Winter
Peter Lomax:
Martin Wimbush
Young Emmeline:
Antonia Clarke
The Missus:
Janet Amsden
Emmeline / Adeline, aged 9:
Madeleine Power
Theodora Mawsley:
Lizzie Hopley
Producer:
David Heyman
Producer:
Norma Heyman