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A full-cast dramatisation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about a passionate romance that breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York. Within the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and meals passes for profession, Newland Archer anticipates his matrimony to May Welland, a lovely young girl from a suitable family 'who knows nothing and desires everything'. Into this well-ordered community May's cousin, the captivating and exotic Countess Olenska, comes. She has went back from Europe after the collapse of her matrimony and alternately enchants and outrages New York society with her cosmopolitan lifestyle. Newland is sympathetic to her break free from a loveless matrimony, as his sympathy deepens into love he not only profits insight in to the brutality of society's treatment of women, but also discovers the true anguish of adoring outside its guidelines. Dramatised by Jane Rogers, starring Andrew Wincott and Susanne Bertish.
