Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks. (1993) Part 1 of 2.
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First broadcast 9th May 1993.
The beautiful Hebe Rutter (Serena Scott Thomas) has been cast out by her family after a teenage pregnancy to a masked stranger during a fiesta in Italy. She makes ends meet and pays for her son's school fees by cooking for old ladies and sleeping with a small syndicate of adoring men (the "peacocks" of the title, from Greek mythology). The story revolves around Hebe, her "clients", and their families, and set against a backdrop of village life in southwest England.
Serena Scott Thomas - Hebe Rutter
Peter Davison - Jim Huxtable
John Mills - Bernard Quigley
Nicholas Le Prevost - Mungo Duff
Renée Asherson - Louisa Fox
Jeremy Child - Julian Reeves
Brenda Bruce - Amy Tremayne
Tom Beasley - Silas Rutter
Richard Huw - Rory Grant
Abigail McKern - Hannah Krull
David Harewood - Terry
The beautiful Hebe Rutter (Serena Scott Thomas) has been cast out by her family after a teenage pregnancy to a masked stranger during a fiesta in Italy. She makes ends meet and pays for her son's school fees by cooking for old ladies and sleeping with a small syndicate of adoring men (the "peacocks" of the title, from Greek mythology). The story revolves around Hebe, her "clients", and their families, and set against a backdrop of village life in southwest England.
Serena Scott Thomas - Hebe Rutter
Peter Davison - Jim Huxtable
John Mills - Bernard Quigley
Nicholas Le Prevost - Mungo Duff
Renée Asherson - Louisa Fox
Jeremy Child - Julian Reeves
Brenda Bruce - Amy Tremayne
Tom Beasley - Silas Rutter
Richard Huw - Rory Grant
Abigail McKern - Hannah Krull
David Harewood - Terry