He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
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Alan Howard , Phoebe Nicholls , John McEnery , Richard Wilson , John Shrapnel , Jonathan Hyde
John Madden
BBC