The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

Episode 1 (1x1)


Air date: Nov 11, 2001

When infamous financier Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet) mysteriously appears in London, the city's impoverished aristocrats greedily court his favor. Felix Carbury, a charming but lazy young baronet, is one of the many gentlemen swarming around Melmotte's rich heiress daughter, Marie. Meanwhile, Felix's independently minded sister, Hetta, falls in love with a bright young engineer, Paul Montague, who is in town to approach Melmotte with an ambitious business propostion. Complications soon arise in business and love.

  • Premiered: Nov 2001
  • Episodes: 4
  • Followers: 11
  • Ended
  • BBC One
  • Sunday at 20