“When can one please oneself if not in old age?”
Lady Slane, the wife of a recently deceased politician, retreats to a cottage in the countryside. In the process, she must attempt to discard her old public profile and find a new way of living.


“When can one please oneself if not in old age?”
Lady Slane, the wife of a recently deceased politician, retreats to a cottage in the countryside. In the process, she must attempt to discard her old public profile and find a new way of living.
1 season · 3 episodes

Wendy Hiller stars as a recently widowed woman who intends to relish her newfound freedom, in an adaptation of Vita Sackville-West's classic story.
S1 E1Episode 1
Dec 9, 198653 min
Lord Slane is dead. After a lifetime spent supporting his career as Viceroy of India, Prime Minister and elder statesman, Lady Slane is free at last to do as she pleases. Downstairs her children are busily deciding her future, assuming grac
S1 E2Episode 2
Dec 16, 198652 min
Lady Slane has escaped the clutches of her family. Now the tenant of Mr Bucktrout's house at Hampstead, she sets about creating a new home for herself and Genoux. An unexpected visitor, however, disturbs the calm by confronting Lady Slane w
S1 E3Episode 3
Dec 23, 198653 min
After more than half a century as a dutiful and loving wife, Lady Slane revels in the company of her new-found friends. But FitzGeorge has one last surprise in store for her, leaving a problem which only she can resolve.