Affairs of the Heart: Series 2

The master storyteller lays bare the privileges and passions of a bygone era.


Classic tales of love and loss based on the fiction of Henry James. Peer into the drawing rooms of Victorian high society in these vintage adaptations of the writings of Henry James. This enchanting collection plays out the tensions and travails of late 19th-century romance, in which English accents encounter American attitudes to powerful effect.

Follow the drama as it unfolds in six scintillating episodes. The superb casts include Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius), Eileen Atkins (Cold Mountain), Sinéad Cusack (North and South), Edward Hardwicke (The Return of Sherlock Holmes), Cheryl Campbell (Chariots of Fire), Daniel Massey (Star!), and Christopher Cazenove (The Duchess of Duke Street). Based on Daisy Miller, An International Episode, and other beloved stories by Henry James, the series explores the delicate affairs of the heart with subtlety and strength.