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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.
Directed by Tristram Powell

Caroline Blakiston
Narrator

Billie Whitelaw
Emma Hardy

Cyril Luckham
Old Hardy

Ian Lindsay
Young Hardy

Elizabeth Proud
Florence Hardy

Petronella Barker
Mrs Holder

Anne Tirard
Mrs Hardy

Claire Oerton
Dolly Gale
Manhattan
1979