Cast:Keeley Hawes, Ed Stoppard, Adrian Scarborough, Neil Jackson, Anne Reid, Claire Foy, Art Malik, Blake Ritson, Nico Mirallegro, Laura Haddock, Ami Metcalf, Jean Marsh, Alex Kingston, Ken Bones, Sarah Gordy, Alexia James, Eileen Atkins, Ellie Kendrick, Michael Landes, Jemma Churchill, Anthony Calf, Ian Barritt, Sarah Lancashire, Edward Baker-Duly, Peter Stark, Lucy Cohu, Emilia Fox, Helen Bradbury, Selina Cadell, Hermione Gulliford
Synopsis
In 1936, Sir Hallam Holland (Ed Stoppard) and his pretty young wife Lady Agnes (Keeley Hawes) return from a diplomatic posting abroad and take up residence at 165 Eaton Place, formerly the home of the Bellamy family but vacant for several years. By chance, they ask Rose Buck (Jean Marsh), a long-time servant in the Bellamy household, to find them a suitable staff. In the end, Rose joins them as the housekeeper. The 1930s are a difficult time in England. The Depression has taken its toll with high levels of unemployment. Fascism, which has become popular on the continent in Italy and Germany, is also finding followers in the U.K. with Oswald Mosely's British Union of Fascists. As the new staff begin their daily work, the downstairs family begins to take shape.
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