Winter Solstice

The story

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

Cast

S Sinéad CusackElfrida Phibbs J Jan NiklasOscar Blundell G Geraldine ChaplinGloria Blundell J Jason DurrSam Howard S Sophie SchüttCarrie Marchmont R Ralf BauerAndreas Mendel P Peter UstinovHughie McLellan J Jean SimmonsCountess Lucinda Rhives E Emma StreetsFrancesca 'Fran' Blundell A Anna MaguireLucy Marchmont M Marsha FitzalanDidi Marchmont J John BirdBarry

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M Maureen LipmanMarcia G Gregory FinneganGiles A Alastair BruceRory Kennedy A Angus WrightPeter Kennedy