Adrian Ross Magenty

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.

Academy Award winner Maggie Smith plays Mrs. Silly, a woman who has lost her husband to another, and is now about to lose her son to an expensive boarding school, compliments of her ex's money. Confronted with these losses, Mrs. Silly realizes she must regain her identity. Desperately trying to keep up appearances, to be cheerful, busy and dignified, she only succeeds in living up to the derisive nickname she invented for herself. For anyone who has ever been a mother or a child -- and that fits everyone -- this is a heart-wrenching story of family love.

Cadfael is the name given to the TV series of The Cadfael Chronicles adaptations produced by British television company ITV Central between 1994 and 1998. The series was broadcast on the ITV network in the UK, and starred Sir Derek Jacobi as the medieval detective.