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The Line of Beauty - a story of love, class, sex and money set in the Thatcherite Eighties Ìý
From Wednesday 17 May 2006 on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO at 9.00pm
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Introduction
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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO's major new three-part drama The Line Of Beauty is adapted by award-winning writer Andrew Davies from Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 Man Booker Prize-winning novel.
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This is a story about love, class, sex and money that gets deep under the skin of the Thatcherite Eighties.
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It is directed by the critically-acclaimed Saul Dibb, winner of the 2005 Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer Award for Bullet Boy.
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Framed by the two General Elections which returned Mrs Thatcher to power, The Line Of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.
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This outsider's journey into the heart of the beautiful and seductive world of the social elite bristles with emotion, drama and social commentary.
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Full of style and wit, it is a richly textured coming-of-age story set in London in a ruthless decade.
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The Line Of Beauty stars a mix of new, young talent and established names.
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Dan Stevens, Alex Wyndam and Hayley Atwell appear alongside Tim McInnerny, Don Gilet, Kenneth Cranham, Alice Krige, Kika Markham and Chris Fairbank.
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The Line Of Beauty is set between the 1983 and 1987 General Elections.
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It charts the relationship between Nick Guest, a gay, middle-class boy with a passion for Henry James, and the Feddens, a rich Tory family from Kensington.
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Nick meets Toby Fedden at Oxford and is attracted to him, so he is thrilled when he is invited to live with Toby's family when university ends.
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During a hot summer in London, Nick befriends Catherine, Toby's manic depressive sister, and falls in love with Leo, a black, socialist council worker.
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He becomes entranced by the powerful, privileged life led by the Feddens and their friends – a life untouched by the stark realities of Eighties Britain: vast unemployment and the rise of Aids.
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