The Herries Chronicle (1960)
3h 30min
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- Synopsis:
- 'The Herries Chronicle' sets out to notice the most vital happenings in England between 1730 and 1962 in terms of a family whose headquarters is in the Lake District. While it concentrates on the ramifications of the family and the doings of its members, many of the most famous characters in our history walk across its stage. Above all it celebrates and portrays the wild and beautiful region where Walpole made his home.Here is fiction in glorious sweeping measure, over one thousand five hundred pages of it 'my best book' as Walpole in his journal himself described Herries which people who come up here (to Cumberland) will read for a while to come.
- Actors:
- Ilona Ference, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Aubrey Morris, Norman Pierce, Margot Van der Burgh, John Wood, Daphne Anderson, Anne Blake, Philip Bond, Christopher Burgess, Gerald Cross, Hamilton Dyce, May Hallatt, Roger Kemp, Michael Logan, Rosemary Miller, Marilyn Morris, Derek Needs, Ruth Porcher, Susan Purdie
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Dramas
