Tipping the Velvet : The Complete BBC Series [2002] [DVD]

March 9, 2010 by
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Tipping the Velvet : The Complete BBC Series [2002] [DVD]

Amazon.co.uk Review

Screenwriter Andrew Davies describes Tipping the Velvet, his adaptation of Sarah Waters’s acclaimed novel of lesbian love, betrayal and redemption in Victorian England, as “Pride and Prejudice with dirty bits”. This three-part BBC production chronicles with relish the story of Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling, the ravishing image of her mother, Diana Rigg), barely 18, and certain that life holds more for her than her oyster girl’s existence. “You’ll meet someone w (more…)

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