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1x50 minute episode 3x55m-e / 13 January - 3 February 1982
Writer: Reg Gadney / Script Editor: Betty Willingale / Novel: Iris Murdoch / Production Design: Chris Pemsel / Music: Chris Wilkinson / Producer: Jonathan Powell / Director: Barry Davis DAVIS, Barry
Period
drama serial. In the 1950's problems arise in the lay
vegetarian community attached to a convent.
cast
Tessa Peake-Jones as Dora Greenfield / Derrick O'Connor as Noel Spens / Gareth Thomas as James Tayper / Michael Maloney as Toby Gashe / James Warwick as Paul Greenfield / Rowena Cooper as Mrs Mark / Trudie Styler as Catherine Fawley / Tim Wylton as Fr Bob Joyce / Patricia Heneghan as Sister Ursula / Ian Holm as Michael Meade / Kenneth Cranham as Nick Fawley / Edward Hardwicke as Peter Topglass / Bryan Pringle as Patchway / William Simons as Mark Strafford /
Lottie as Murphy (the dog)
EPISODE
GUIDE
EPISODE ONE (Broadcast 13 January 1982 @ 9.25pm)
Dora Greenfield is unsure about moving into the community at Imber Court with her Paul.
guest cast
Kenny Baker, John Edwards, Terry Walsh as Member of jazz group
EPISODE TWO (Broadcast 13 January 1982 @ 9.25pm)
A new bell is about to installed at Imber Abbey which has been without one ever since the old one fell into the lake (supposedly connected to a scandal involving one of the nuns taking a lover).
guest cast
Finnuala O'Shannon as first nun
EPISODE THREE (Broadcast 27 January @ 9.25pm)
Dora has grown rather too close to Toby Gashe and she flees to London to ind some room to think.
guest cast
Rachel Kempson as Abbess
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