Aristocrats bbc episode guide

Continue The BBC, no one does it the way you do. For every piece of shit like the recent Merlin and the god-terrible Robin Hood, they give us a sumptuous drama costume like aristocrats. Aristocrats is a 1999 miniseries based on Stella Tillyard's biography of Lennox's fairy-tale sisters. The are not just aristocrats, no, they are creme de la creme aristocrats, great daughters of Charles II and his mistress Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth. Their story, spanning almost the entire 18th century, is one of the noblest families in England and the changes they see in their lifetimes. Sisters grow up in a world of great privilege. Since childhood, they are surrounded by servants and family members. Both of their parents were courtiers of George II, hence the children grew up around the royal family, waiting for time with them too to make their debut and take their place among the country's elite. They are also brought up with a romantic story about how their parents organized a marriage turned into a love match. The second Duke of Richmond was married to Lady Sarah Cadogan to pay off a gambling debt between their fathers. Shortly after the wedding, the groom (only 18 years old) went on a grand tour of Europe, so as not to return for 3 years. When he returned, he visited the theater, and was immediately taken by the beauty, sitting in one of the boxes, surrounded by fans. Too his surprise, it turned out to be his own wife. With this story swirling around in their brains, it's no surprise that every Lennox sister grew up expecting to have happy marriages, and choose their husbands, while their parents certainly felt that since their own marriage was arranged, they knew better for their daughters. Caroline (played by Serena Gordon) is the first to rebel. Unmarried in twenty years, and almost on the shelf, she becomes fascinated by Henry Fox (Alun Armstrong). An atheist, and a former libertine, twenty years her senior, it was no one's idea of a perfect match, certainly not Caroline's parents. Although he was a growing politician, he was poor. However, Caroline and Henry fell in love and fled, as a result of which her parents refused to see her. Emily's next sister (Geraldine Somerville), the beauty of the family and beloved daughter, is pursued by the Earl of Kildare (and the future Duke of Leinster is played by Ben Daniels), the leading aristocrat in Ireland. He doesn't like her parents anymore than Henry Fox. Their main objection? He was Irish. However, Emily got used to getting what she wanted, and soon managed to influence her parents to allow her to marry the Earl of Kildare at the age of 15. The day after her marriage, with the consent of her husband, Emily hightails him to her sister Caroline's house, for reconciliation. It is only after Emily has her first child that Caroline and her reconciled, though they apparently never warm to her happy and successful marriage to Henry Fox (the future Lord Holland). After having her first husband of 19 children, Emily later scandalized both the aristocracy and her sisters when she remarried after Leinster's death with her children's tutor, a younger Scot named William Ogilvy, with whom she had an affair. Her youngest son though admitted Kildare was Ogilvy. He and Ogilvy had three children after the wedding. (Johdi May), the second youngest, has the longest path to happiness of all sisters. She returned to England at the age of 14, spending most of her childhood in Ireland with her sisters Louise and Cecilia after the death of their parents. The future George III falls in love with her, and her family encourages the idea that a match can be made between them. But after George becomes king, a more appropriate match with the German Princess Charlotte Mecklinburg-Strelitz arranged. Sarah feels embarrassed and humiliated at the rejection. She rushes into marriage to George Bunbury, who turns out to be indifferent and boring, stumbles upon a love affair with Lord William Gordon, who she has an illegitimate child. Ostracized by society after her husband divorces her, Sarah lives in a kind of purgatory with her brother until she finally finds happiness as the wife of a career soldier, .The mini-series six hours of glorious costumes and radical drama, narrated by Emily as played by Sian Phillips as an old woman. At the heart of this story is the history of the family. The Lennox family suffers from petty quarrels, jealously, grief, like any other family, it's just they are very rich and privileged. The sisters are fighting for their parents to be, and then later Amy and Caroline are estranged for years over Lady Sarah's scandalous behaviour. It also gives the viewer a good idea of what it was like for a woman of that period of time if she broke and was caught. The performances are uniformly wonderful, although I found Jodhi May as a young Sarah Lennox a little dull and bland, but I find her a particularly boring actress. I was also disappointed that George II was portrayed as a cheerful Englishman when he barely spoke English.The final episode spends most of his time telling the story of Emily's son Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a passionate supporter of the United Irish who sought to rid Ireland of the English. Unfortunately, because the episode was only an hour old, the story seemed truncated. The whole mini-series could only be done on Lord Edward Fitzgerald. The mini-series also never seems to address Lady Louise 's (played by Anne-Marie Duff and then Diana Fast)'s inability to have children, no matter what caused her distress. She is the least interesting or cognizable of the sisters. She seems to have spent life tries to be good and do good deeds that noble, but does not make for interesting drama. Apparently, after her husband's death, she discovered that he had kept a mistress in another city throughout their marriage. If you loved the Duchess, a recent film about Georgia, the Duchess of Devonshire, then you really enjoy this mini-series. It has the full depth that the film, in my opinion, lacked, precisely because the filmmakers had six hours to detail their stories. There is also an amazing companion book to a series chock full of photos and details about the sisters. AristocratsGenreDrama WrittenIgraphy: Stella TillyardCrime: Harriet O'CarrollDirectordavid CaffreyComposer (s) Mark ThomasCounted UKUSIrelandOriginal language (s)EnglishNo. series1No. Episodes6ProductionExecutive Producer (s) Kevin MentonRod StonemanRebecca EatonMichael WearingProduction location (s)Maynooth, County Kildare, IrelandEditor (s) Neil ThomsonRunning time300 min. (6 episodes)ReleaseCorginal NetworkBBC OnePicture format14:9Abudi format Dolby DigitalOriginal release20 June (1999-06-20) -25 July 25 The 1999 (1999-07-25) Series of Aristocrats is a 1999 television series based on the biography of Stella Tillyard of the four aristocratic Lennox sisters in 18th-century England. The series consists of six episodes of 50 minutes each and was first shown in the United Kingdom on the BBC since 20 June 1999. It was a joint production between the United Kingdom, the United States and the Republic of Ireland. Episode 1 - Broadcast June 20, 1999 Episode 2 - Broadcast June 27, 1999 Episode 3 - Broadcast 4 July 1999 Episode 4 - Broadcast 11 July 1999 Episode 5 - Broadcast 18 July 1999 Episode 6 - Air 25 July 19 Character starring Lady Caroline Lennox Serena Gordon Lady Louise Lennox Anne-Marie Duff Lady Emily Geraldine Somerville Narrator/ Senior Lady Emily Lennox Sien Phillips Lady Sarah Lennox Jodhi May Lord Holland Alun Armstrong Lord Kildare Ben Daniels Duke Richmond Julian Fellowes Duchess of Richmond Diana Fletcher Bt Andrew Hayville William Ogilvy George Anton Lord Edward Fitzgerald John Light King George II Clive Swift Lord Bofield Richard Dempsey Little , and Best Television Drama. It has also been nominated for two Awards by the Royal Television Society, including Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup. The DVD release of all six parts of the miniseries was released in a DVD box on August 8, 2006. The set includes three discs containing all episodes. Inquiries on - Aristocrats (1999) (mini) - Awards - Aristocrats (1999) (mini) - DVD details for DVD features Aristocrats- DVD External references of Aristocrats on bbc programs Aristocrats on IMDb This article related to the BBC television program is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.vte sourced from (TV_series) oldid'978027735 Main Content All Available Now (0) Coming on (0) Main Content 5 nominations. See more awards Edit The full series of the cast summary: Sion Phillips ... The narrator / ... 6 episodes, 1999 Alun Armstrong ... Henry Foxx 5 episodes, 1999 Ben Daniels ... Lord Kildare 5 episodes, 1999 Serena Gordon ... Lady Caroline 5 episodes, 1999 Anne-Marie Duff ... Lady Louise 4 episode, 1999 Toby Jones ... Ste Fox 4 episodes, 1999 Tom Mallion ... Thomas Conolly 4 episodes, 1999 Jodhi May ... Lady Sarah 4 episodes, 1999 Geraldine Somerville ... Lady Emily 4 episodes, 1999 Hugh Sachs ... 4 episodes, 1999 Tom Beard ... Charles 3rd Duke of Richmond 3 episodes, 1999 Andrew Fitzsimons ... Young Edward Fitzgerald / ... 3 episode, 1999 Brendan Morrissey ... Fox Butler 3 episodes, 1999 Clive Swift ... King George II 3 episodes, 1999 Catherine Vaughan ... Mary 3 Duchess of Richmond 3 episodes, 1999 George Anton ... William Ogilvie 2 episodes, 1999 Jeremy Bullock ... Senior George Napier 2 episodes, 1999 Julian Fellowes ... Duke of Richmond 2 episodes, 1999 Diana Fletcher ... Duchess of Richmond 2 episodes, 1999 Patrick Duncan ... First guest / ... 2 episode, 1999 David Gant ... Old Ogilvie 2 episodes, 1999 Andrew Havill ... Charles Bunbury 2 episode, 1999 Lara Madden ... Young Lady Sarah 2 episodes, 1999 Frank Kelly ... George Selwyn 2 episode, 1999 John Light ... Lord Edward Fitzgerald 2 episode, 1999 Saoirse O'Brien ... Young Lady Louise 2 episode, 1999 Catherine Rogers ... Princess Caroline 2 episode, 1999 Pauline McLynn ... Susan Fox-Strangways 2 episodes, 1999 Jerome Pradon ... Duc de Lauzun 2 episodes, 1999 William Sparks ... Young Charles 2 episodes, 1999 Diana Fast ... Elderly Lady Louise 2 episode, 1999 Eamonn Rohan ... Horace Walpole 2 episodes, 1999 Paul Ridley ... Old Tom Conoli 2 episode, 1999 Amelia Warner ... Lady Cecilia 2 episode, 1999 Sheila Raskin ... Elderly Lady Sarah 2 episodes, 1999 Adam Webb ... William Fitzgerald 2 episodes, 1999 More Edit 18th century England and Ireland is seen through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louise, and Sarah Lennox, the great-granddaughter of the King, the daughter of a cabinet minister, and the wife of politicians and peers. Plot Summary (en) Add a Summary of England Honor (en) TV mini-series Georgian courtship See. All (41) Certificate: See All Certificates of Parents' Guide: Add Content Advisory for Parents Edit geraldine Somerville, who was the lead actress played by Lennox's second sister Emily, in the background like a mourner in a scene where Lady Caroline and Mr Fox speak at the funeral in the first episode of the series. At this point in the story, Emily's character is a child so Geraldine has been available as an extra and casting directors don't think anyone will notice. Read more Lady Emily: It's not an act of love... Weird? Jimmy says that his frequent use is necessary for a woman's health and happiness. Caroline: It's disgustingly indelicate. Lady Emily: He says what he thinks. Caroline: I'm sure you can see a lot of mighty comfortable old virgins. Lady Emily: Maybe it is. But one is terribly glad not to be among them... See more Croppy Boy Traditional More User Reviews

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