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A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels-called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life.
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The Pallisers is a sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, power, intrigue and scandal. Set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Based on the six "political" novels by Anthony Trollope. These first eight episodes introduce Plantagenet Palliser (Philip Latham) and Lady Glencora (Emmy Award-winner Susan Hampshire), whose politically advantageous marriage sets the stage for this fascinating chronicle of three...
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"The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial...