Our Mutual Friend, Part 3 Charles Dickens ( BBC, 1998)

Critically acclaimed as Dickens crowning achievement, this sweeping tale of two turbulent love affairs plays out amidst a tangled web of wealth, corruption, passion and betrayal in 1860s London. One of Charles Dickens darkest yet also most romantic novels gets a lavish treatment in this BBC miniseries of Our Mutual Friend. The heir to a great fortune made from the garbage business is drownedand his death affects everyone. His father s manager, Noddy Boffin (Peter Vaughan), gets the money, to the alar