It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Becky is determined to be the controller of her own destiny despite her relatively lowly origins and we follow her frequently fraught attempts to land a man of wealth and the lengths that she will go to in order to achieve her goals, from the idiot Jos Sedley to the caddish Rawdon Crawley. Vanity Fair is a superior literary adaptation from the BBC set within the upper echelons of English society during the war with Napoleon. find out more...

Becky is determined to be the controller of her own destiny despite her relatively lowly origins and we follow her frequently fraught attempts to land a man of wealth and the lengths that she will go to in order to achieve her goals, from the idiot Jos Sedley to the caddish Rawdon Crawley. Vanity Fair is a superior literary adaptation from the BBC set within the upper echelons of English society during the war with Napoleon. find out more...