BBC One · Ended

The Edwardians

Drama · 1972

Last aired: S1 E8, Lloyd-George · 1973-01-09

Drama series exploring the lives of many who helped define this era including inventors, artists, writers, performer, soldiers and politicians.

Cast

Thorley Walters King Edward VII

Nigel Davenport Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ron Moody Robert Baden-Powell

Timothy West Horatio Bottomley

Anthony Hopkins David Lloyd George

Annette Crosbie Margaret Lloyd George

Keith Barron Angus Hamilton

June Brown Eliza Bottomley

Season 1

E1 Mr Rolls and Mr Royce 1972-11-21 · 80 min Henry Royce, electrical engineer, had just made his first car. Meanwhile Charles Rolls, a motor dealer, is looking for a reliable model to sell.

E2 Horation Bottomley 1972-11-28 · 80 min The story about the financier, founder of John Bull, fraud and swindler.

E3 E Nesbit 1972-12-05 · 75 min Story of the author of The Railway Children who lived in a menage a trois with her husband and his mistress.

E4 Conan-Doyle 1972-12-12 · 65 min Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, starts behaving like his character.

E5 Baden-Powell 1972-12-19 · 65 min Is the image of the heroic Boer War General correct? This programmes takes a closer look at the founder of the Scout movement.

E6 The Reluctant Juggler 1972-12-26 · 75 min A night at an Edwardian music-hall both on stage and backstage, where the performers are organising a strike.

E7 Daisy 1973-01-02 · 75 min Daisy Warwick, the mistress of Edward VII, and convert to socialism dictates her memoirs to Frank Harris.

E8 Lloyd-George 1973-01-09 · 80 min The paradox of a politician who was a force for social change, a negotiator and untiring philanderer.

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