
The Shining
1997


The unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh, dominated by the eccentric, irascible Uncle Matthew. The story encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War.
Directed by Donald McWhinnie

Michael Williams
Davey Warbeck

Michael Aldridge
Uncle Matt
John Moffatt
Lord Merlin

Lucy Gutteridge
Linda

Judi Dench
Aunt Sadie

Richard Hurndall
Lord Montdore

Anthony Stewart Head
Tony Kroesig

Vivian Pickles
Lady Montdore

Diana Fairfax
Emily Warbeck

Michael Cochrane
Cedric Hampton

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Fabrice, Duc de Sauveterre

David Parfitt
Little Matt

Amanda Boxer
Young Baroness

Anthony Higgins
Juan

Michael Elwyn
Rolly
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Child Hunt
1980-10-29 · 60m
We meet the Radlett family engaged in one of its happiest pursuits - Lord Alconleigh hunts his daughters with bloodhounds.
Coming Out
1980-11-05 · 60m
The Radlett girls (with cousin Fanny and friend Polly) begin to take their first steps into Society and in pursuit of Love. Of them all, only Lady Polly seems to have no interest in the latter.
Rings and Things
1980-11-12 · 60m
Engagements to be married come about for good and bad reasons - and some are more approved of than others.
The Merry Widower
1980-11-19 · 60m
We are reminded that it is not only the younger generation which has amorous ambitions. Lady Polly finally chooses her mate, to the astonishment of the fashionable world and the horrified disbelief of her mother.
Heir Apparent
1980-11-26 · 60m
Lord Montdore's heir, Cedric Hampton, who is a distant cousin in Canada, is feared to be an obscure redneck. But truth can be stranger than fiction.
Foreigners Are Fiends
1980-12-03 · 60m
Lord Alconleigh's fondest memories of youth are of slaughtering Germans with an entrenching tool in the course of hand-to-hand warfare, and he has no greater fondness for foreigners of other nations. Thus it is that he lacks enthusiasm for welcoming the non-English into the heart of his own family...
Monsieur Le Duc
1980-12-10 · 60m
Linda Radlett, after abandoning first her husband and child, next her Communist lover, Christian, falls in love for the last time - with a French duke whom she meets while in tears and sitting on a suitcase in a Paris railway station.
In Love and War
1980-12-17 · 60m
With the coming of War, the Radlett daughters have re-assembled in the family home, where there is a surprising arrival from overseas. The series ends in deaths - one of them unexpected.

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