Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

Mar 5, 1978

0h 54m

★ 10.0

Overview

Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Production Companies

BBC

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Cast

Narrator

Caroline Blakiston

Emma Hardy

Billie Whitelaw

Old Hardy

Cyril Luckham

Young Hardy

Ian Lindsay

Florence Hardy

Elizabeth Proud

Mrs Holder

Petronella Barker

Mrs Hardy

Anne Tirard

Dolly Gale

Claire Oerton

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