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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

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    This four-part drama series from BBC2 followed the life of Julia Almond (Francesca Annis) from leaving school in 1913 to her execution for murder in 1922.

    Julia – the daughter of a lower-middle-class family – is a romantic, imaginative creature living in a world of dream lovers and glamorous situations. But she is also practical, intelligent and ambitious.

    Her parents are shocked when she launches out on her own and gets herself work in a West End shop.

    Her romance with a young subaltern ends tragically when he is sent to the Western Front and Julia marries another soldier, Herbert Starling (Bernard Hepton), solid and bourgeois, but temporarily glamorised by a uniform.

    Returning from the war he immediately becomes a dull and uncongenial husband, very jealous of the freer and more glamorous world in which Julia manages to earn much more than he does.

    The serial was fiction but based on the case of Edith Thompson and Freddie Bywaters who both went to the gallows in the 1920s for the murder of Edith’s husband, Percy.

    Julia Almond/Starling
    Francesca Annis
    Herbert Starling
    Bernard Hepton
    Mrs Almond
    Mary Chester
    Mr Almond
    Ron Pember
    Anne Ackroyd
    Petronella Barker
    Gipsy Danvers
    Charlotte Howard
    Leonard Carr
    John Duttine
    Bertha Starling
    Georgine Anderson
    Emily
    Sylvia Barter
    Elsa Beale
    Rosemary Blake
    Mildred Beale
    Margaret Flint
    Marian Lestrange
    Jill Melford
    George Beale
    John Nettleton
    Mrs Carr
    Maryann Turner
    Julia’s counsel
    Anthony Roye
    Mrs Humble
    Queenie Watts

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