Another Life

The story

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

Cast

N Natasha LittleEdith Jessie Thompson N Nick MoranPercy Thompson I Ioan GruffuddFrederick Edward Francis Bywaters I Imelda StauntonEthel Graydon T Tom WilkinsonMr. Carlton R Rachael StirlingAvis Graydon D Diana CouplandMrs. Lester M Michael BertenshawWilliam Graydon D Daniel BrocklebankNewnie E Elizabeth McKechnieMrs. Thompson J Judy CliftonNora Lester S Simon ParisSgt. Mew

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A Alex PotterYoung Billy A Anton GregoryYoung Harold R Rikki DoughtyYoung Freddie J Juliet ForesterMiss Prior H Helen BramptonLily Thompson A Angela HartNun K Karen PowellNun D Daniel GoodeKenneth G Gyuri SarossyArchie A Arthur GerardMr Lester B Barbara WilshereMr Carlton's Whore N Nicholas HutchisonDr Maudsley A Alan LeithInspector Hall M Michael SheardMr. Justice Shearman B Bruce PurchaseSir Henry Curtis-Bennett J John TordoffJohn Ellis R Richard MayesPrison Chaplain