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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
6:35 pm - 7:50 pm Sunday, October 4
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Season 1 · Episode 1
Peasant girl Tess Durbeyfield is encouraged by her father to seek advancement with their supposed relatives, the wealthy D'Urbervilles, and meets the charming Alec, man of the house since his father's death. He showers her with attention and gifts, promising her family will want for nothing - but as she soon discovers to her cost, there's a dark side to her persistent new suitor. Thomas Hardy adaptation, starring Gemma Arterton, Hans Matheson, Ian Puleston-Davies and Anna Massey
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- Gemma Arterton — Actor as Tess Durbeyfield
- Hans Matheson — Actor as Alec D'Urberville
- Eddie Redmayne — Actor as Angel Clare
- Ruth Jones — Actor as Joan Durbeyfield
- Donald Sumpter — Actor as Parson Tringham
- Ian Puleston-Davies — Actor as John Durbeyfield
- Anna Massey — Actor as Mrs D'Urberville
- Christopher Fairbank — Actor as Groby
- Jo Woodcock — Actor as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield
- Joel Rowbottom — Actor as Abraham Durbeyfield
- Steven Robertson — Actor as Cuthbert Clare
- Hugh Skinner — Actor as Felix Clare
- Laura Elphinstone — Actor as Car Darch
- Sara Lloyd-Gregory — Actor as Nancy Darch
- Christine Bottomley — Actor as Kate
- Emma Stansfield — Actor as Mary
- Merelina Kendall — Actor as Miss Evans
- Sarah Counsell — Actor as Drunken woman
- Ewan Watson — Actor as Man with gun
- David Nicholls — Writer
- David Snodin — Producer
- David Blair — Director
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