"When their friend Nicholas is killed in 1960, several women think back to the time when they knew him, in 1945 "when all the best people were poor"."
Miriam Margolyes
as Jane Wright
Patricia Hodge
as Anne Baberton
James Laurenson
as Nicholas Farringdon
Marion Bailey
as Dormitory Girl
Jack Shepherd
as Rudi Bittesch
Mary Tamm
as Selina Redwood
Judith Paris
as Pauline Fox
Valerie Lush
as Jarvie
Jeffrey Segal
as George
Jane Cussons
as Judy Redwood
Rosamund Greenwood
as Collie
Tina Heath
as Jill
Rosalind Shanks
as Joanna Childe
Tony Millan
as Ernest Claymore
Madeleine Christie
as Greggie
Anna Sharkey
as Tilly
Marilyn Finlay
as Nancy Riddle
Anne-Louise Wakefield
as Pippa
Janet Burnell
as Warden
Sarah Nash
as Dorothy Markham
Kate Atkinson
as Tricia
Martin Lisemore
Producer
Moira Armstrong
Director
Ken Taylor
Writer
Sally Hulke
Production Design
Muriel Spark
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