Wessex Tales

When Farmer Lodge brings home his new bride, a mysterious enemy awaits to blight their happiness.

Barnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.

Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability. Dramatised by Dennis Potter and starring John Hurt.

Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.

The arrival of the York Hussars on the Dorset Downs has a dramatic impact upon the life of Phyllis Grove.

Lord Uplandtowers vows that he will make Barbara his wife. But she has secret plans of her own.