adboughton

Film from the 1980s, timeline begins at the end of WWI and travels through the 1920s and '30s, about a responsible, sober British aristocrat, who when leaving the Continent at the end of WWI, marries an hysterical northern European woman who turns out to be somewhat mad and leads their children astray in various ways. The youngest son becomes a crusading journalist who ruins the careers of a number of civil servants by reactive reporting, the son-in-law is a third rate academic who, when given a job at the eldest son's industrial company, lectures the workers on 'ethics' during lunch hours, and pompously spills the beans on a planned workforce restructuring. The father leads a scientific community in which there is a woman member obsessed with the possibility that the ancient Britons were phallic worshippers. Many scenes of family disasters, such as a Christmas party, traditionally hosted for villagers at their country home for centuries, but in this case the wife has dressed the village children for a play with candelabras on their heads, I htink in imitation of a Danish tradition, hot wax dripping down, angry parents take their children away ... and at each such scene the implacable chaufeur "Shall I fetch the Humber, sir?" ... A man's view of modern life as it began to change in the early 20th century. Andrew

LocalHero

Could this be Anglo-Saxon Attitudes?

Based on the novel by Angus Wilson - synopsis here.

dpgmel

Certainly sounds like it excellent central performance from Richard Johnson ( also featues a young Daniel Craig ) thanks to Network is available to a wide audience. Fist class telly IMHO !