Wessex Tales

Episode 2

Fellow Townsmen

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

Episode 3

A Tragedy of Two Ambitions

Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.

Episode 4

An Imaginative Woman

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

Episode 5

The Melancholy Hussar

A tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.

Episode 6

Barbara of the House of Grebe

Lord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.