An adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s two 19th Century classics, “The Warden”, and “Barchester Towers”, starring Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne, Geraldine McEwan and Susan Hampshire. Reverend Septimus Harding is one of the most respected men in Barchester. He lives an honest and undisturbed life until the advent of a passionate reformer, John Bold, who accuses the Reverend of corruption which turns his cosy world of Barchester upside down.
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ACMI Identifier
302830
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television
Literature → English literature - Film and video adaptations
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)