TY  - ADVS
AU  - Hardy Thomas
TI  - Wessex tales
SN  - 8178264366
AV  - PR4749 .A1 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Rohan Book Company
KW  - England
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Disc 1: The withered arm / adapted by Rhys Adrian ; directed by Desmond Davis ; and starring Billie Whitelaw ; Fellow townsmen / adapted by Douglas Livingstone ; directed by Barry Davis ; starring Jane Asher ; A tragedy of two ambitions / adapted by Dennis Potter ; directed by Michael Tuchner ; starring John Hurt -- disc 2: An imaginative woman / adapted by William Trevor ; directed by Gavin Millar ; starring Claire Bloom ; The melancholy hussar / adapted by Ken Taylor ; directed by Mike Newell ; starring Ben Cross ; Barbara of the House of Grebe / adapted by David Mercer ; directed by David Jones ; starring Nick Brimble and Ben Kingsley; Billie Whitelaw, Kenneth Haigh, Jane Asher, John Hurt, David Troughton, Edward Petherbridge, Claire Bloom, Norman Rodway, Ben Cross, Ben Kingsley, Leslie Sands; Rating: Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over; contains moderate violence and horror
N2  - "In 1973, the BBC commissioned six writers, six directors, and an exceptional cast of actors to undertake the Wessex tales of Dorset author Thomas Hardy. These tales-- of witchery, revenge, thwarted passion, costly ambition, buried desire, madness and betrayal-- find their participants entrapped repeatedly by fate-- always at liberty to make choices but inevitably confronted by their destiny"--Container
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