The Anthony Trollope Collection

The Anthony Trollope Collection contains three masterpieces and over 15 hours of timeless film from one of the greatest nineteenth-century novelist to have ever lived. Visit the fascinating world of Victorian England through the eyes of Anthony Trollope, as the prolific and respected novelist illustrates the penetrating conflicts of the day.

Includes: The Barchester Chronicles, He Knew He Was Right and The Way We Live Now

The Barchester Chronicles
The community of Barchester is shaken from its cozy complacency when a newspaper's crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires. Overnight, Rev. Harding (Donald Pleasence, The Great Escape) becomes a pawn in a battle between his younger daughter's beau, John Bold, and his older daughter's husband, Archdeacon Grantly (Nigel Hawthorne, The Madness of King George). Little do they realize that the worst is yet to come, until a regime change delivers Barchester into the hands of a most unholy trinity: the weak-willed Bishop Proudie; the domineering Mrs. Proudie; and the insufferable Rev Obadiah Slope (Alan Rickman, Harry Potter).

The Way We Live Now
Based on the novel by Anthony Trollope, this satire of Victorian society contains all the dynamic elements that made him one of the most celebrated and popular novelists of his day - the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of the upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface. The Way We Live Now captures the turmoil as the old is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance.

He Knew He Was Right
A flirtatious vicar, two squabbling sisters, an ingénue and her meddling aunt...these are the friends and relations who surround Louis and Emily Trevalyan in the first blissful year of married life. But things take a darker turn when the roguish Colonel Osborne (Bill Nighy) takes an interest in Emily, and, flattered by the resulting gossip, fans the flames of Louis's jealousy. In an atmosphere thick with romance and rumor, Louis finds it all too easy to accuse his wife and force her from the house along with their young son. Obsessed with the imagined seduction, he descends into darkness, determined to destroy everything he loves.

The Barchester Chronicles

Rev. Septimus Harding	---	Donald Pleasence
Rev. Obadiah Slope	---	Alan Rickman
John Bold	---	David Gwillim
Finney	---	John Ringham
Bunce	---	Joseph O'Conor
Handy	---	Clifford Parrish
Moody	---	Wally Thomas
Gazy	---	Kenneth Keeling
Eleanor Bold	---	Janet Maw
Archdeacon Grantly	---	Nigel Hawthorne
Bishop Grantly	---	Cyril Luckham
Mary Bold	---	Barbara Flynn
Susan Grantly	---	Angela Pleasence
Skulpit	---	Denis Carey
Tom Towers	---	George Costigan
Samuel Grantly	---	William Redgrave
Sir Abraham Haphazard	---	Michael Aldridge
Bishop Proudie	---	Clive Swift

The Way We Live Now

Augustus Melmotte	---	David Suchet
Marie Melmotte	---	Shirley Henderson
Sir Felix Carbury	---	Matthew MacFadyen
Lady Carbury	---	Cheryl Campbell
Hetta Carbury	---	Paloma Baeza
Roger Carbury	---	Douglas Hodge
Mrs Hurtle	---	Miranda Otto
Paul Montague	---	Cillian Murphy
Mr Alf	---	Rob Brydon
Madame Melmotte	---	Helen Schlesinger
Hamilton K Fisker	---	Michael Riley
Croll	---	Allan Corduner
Mr Broune	---	David Bradley
Mr Brehgert	---	Jim Carter
Mr Longestaffe	---	Oliver Ford Davies
Lady Pomona Longestaffe	---	Joanna David
Georgiana Longestaffe	---	Anne-Marie Duff
Dolly Longestaffe	---	Richard Cant
Lord Alfred Grendall	---	Tony Britton
Miles Grendall	---	Angus Wright
Marquis of Auld Reekie	---	Graham Crowden
Lord Nidderdale	---	Stuart McQuarrie
Ruby Ruggles	---	Maxine Peake
Mr Ruggles	---	Trevor Peacock
John Crumb	---	Nicholas McGaughey
Mrs Pipkin	---	Michele Dotrice
Didon	---	Lilo Baur
Squercum	---	Toby Jones
Herr Vossner	---	Jon Rumney
Mr Brown MP	---	Roger Hammond
Speaker	---	Dudley Sutton

He Knew He Was Right

Louis Trevelyan	---	Oliver Dimsdale
EmilyTrevelyan (née Rowley)	---	Laura Fraser
Hugh Stanbury	---	Stephen Campbell Moore
Nora Rowley	---	Christina Cole
Colonel Osborne	---	Bill Nighy
Miss Stanbury	---	Anna Massey
Sir Marmaduke Rowley	---	Geoffrey Palmer
Lady Rowley	---	Geraldine James
Reverend Outhouse	---	John Alderton
Reverend Gibson	---	David Tennant
Dorothy Stanbury	---	Caroline Martin
Mrs Stanbury	---	Joanna David
Priscilla Stanbury	---	Amy Marston
Mr Glascock	---	Raymond Coulthard
Mrs French	---	Barbara Flynn
Camilla French	---	Claudie Blakley
Arabella French	---	Fenella Woolgar
Mr Bozzle	---	Ron Cook
Mrs Bozzle	---	Patsy Palmer
Mr Crump	---	James Bolam
Lady Milborough	---	Jane Lapotaire
Brooke Burgess	---	Matthew Goode
Caroline Spalding	---	Anna-Louise Plowman
Mrs Outhouse	---	Lynn Farleigh
QC	---	Philip Madoc

BAFTA? Awards
2001/02 ? Best Serial Drama - The Way We Live Now
1983 ? Best Design - Chris Pemsel

The Way We Live Now
‘A delicious dollop of Trollope, The Way We Live Now is luscious, dynamic and intoxicating ... a future classic.’ -Guardian

‘The Way We Live Now looks as though it will be a big success, not only because it is well-acted and lavishly produced. For both the title and the subject matter parallel our own well-remembered Eighties.’ -Daily Mail

‘...pacy and funny and beautifully acted.’ -The Times

‘Suchet gave such a towering performance, whenever he left the room it seemed an emptier place.The savage social satire was packed with colourful characters. Cheryl Campbell went gloriously over the top as cash-strapped Lady Carbury whose obvious charms knocked your eyes out. And Matthew Macfadyen was superb as Sir Felix Carbury, her scheming wastrel of a son who saw Melmotte's simpering daughter as the answer to his money problems. It may be a little-known classic but it makes a gem of a TV series.’- Mirror

‘With a young and good-looking cast expertly playing off the veterans, a simmering atmosphere is effortlessly achieved.’ -Sunday Times

He Knew He Was Right
"...brilliant storytelling, plenty of historical eye candy ... this is a BBC period drama in the best tradition." -Express

"...this is another superb piece of work." -Daily Telegraph

"This new four-parter looks like a corker." -Daily Star

“It’s solid, well-sprung and very watchable.”- Sunday Telegraph

“...stunning...” -Daily Mirror

"...a solid pleasure."- Independent

“...classy...” -London Evening Standard

"It is characteristically well done, and you should be hooked by the end of episode one." -Sunday Times