Another Life

Overview

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

Director: Philip Goodhew

Cast

Natasha Little

Edith Jessie Thompson

Nick Moran

Percy Thompson

Ioan Gruffudd

Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters

Imelda Staunton

Ethel Graydon

Tom Wilkinson

Mr. Carlton

Rachael Stirling

Avis Graydon

Diana Coupland

Mrs. Lester

Michael Bertenshaw

William Graydon

Daniel Brocklebank

Newnie

Elizabeth McKechnie

Mrs. Thompson