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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.
Top billed cast
Caroline BlakistonNarrator
Billie WhitelawEmma Hardy
Cyril LuckhamOld Hardy
Ian LindsayYoung Hardy- Elizabeth ProudFlorence Hardy
Petronella BarkerMrs Holder- Anne TirardMrs Hardy
- Claire OertonDolly Gale
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