Title |
Anglo Saxon attitudes. |
Published |
Australia : Distributed by ViaVision Entertainment, [2021]. |
Physical description |
2 DVD-videos (237 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
General note |
Catalogued from container. |
ViaVision Entertainment : VVE2827. |
Originally broadcast in 1992. |
Based on the book of the same name by Angus Wilson. |
Credits note |
Dramatized by Andrew Davies. |
Performer note |
Richard Johnson ; Elizabeth Spriggs ; Douglas Hodge ; Tara Fitzgerald, Daniel Craig. |
Summary |
Gerald Middleton is a wealthy and cultured professor of medieval history who, at sixty, feels both an academic and emotional failure. His broken marriage to the monstrous Inge has produced three children from whom he is estranged. Dollie, his best friend's wife with whom he had a long and passionate love affair, has disappeared from his life in a cloud of recrimination and alcohol. And Gilbert Stokesay, the best friend, long dead in the trenches of the Great War, continues to haunt and threaten his self-esteem as an historian - all because of the Melpham Idol, a pagan phallic figure found in the coffin of a disinterred Bishop. It is the most important archaeological find of the century, a discovery that changes the course of scholarship and sets the academic world in turmoil. But is it a hoax? And if so who was responsible? And why? |
Subject |
Wilson, Angus, -- 1913-1991 -- Television adaptations |
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama |
Middle class families -- Drama |
Middle-aged men -- Drama |
Remorse -- Drama |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Drama |
Forgery of antiquities -- Drama |
Television series -- Great Britain |
Television programs, British |
Dark comedy television programs |
Comedies of manners |
Historical television programs |
Satirical television programs |
Television adaptations |
Fiction television programs |
Television mini-series |
Additional author |
Davies, Andrew, 1936- screenwriter. |
Johnson, Richard, 1927-2015 actor. |
Spriggs, Elizabeth actor. |
Hodge, Douglas actor. |
Fitzgerald, Tara, 1968- actor. |
Craig, Daniel, 1968- actor. |
Wilson, Angus, 1913-1991 |
Added title |
Anglo Saxon attitudes (TV mini-series : 1992) |