The Way We Live Now

Synopsis

Anthony Trollope’s epic tale of Victorian power and corruption, set in the 1870s. Within weeks of his arrival in London, financier Augustus Melmotte announces a railway is to be built from Salt Lake City to the Gulf of Mexico and entices distinguished members of England's land-rich, cash-poor aristocracy into his web. Many are eager to sell their ailing land parcels to afford moving to London proper and naïve speculators are all lured in with promises of an instant fortune.

Streaming on

• BBC One↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  David Suchet
  as Augustus Melmotte
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  Matthew Macfadyen
  as Sir Felix Carbury
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  Cillian Murphy
  as Paul Montague
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  Paloma Baeza
  as Hetta Carbury
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  Cheryl Campbell
  as Lady Carbury
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  Richard Cant
  as Dolly Longestaffe

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