Anglo Saxon Attitudes | Complete Mini Series DVD

Gerald Middleton, a wealthy medieval history professor, confronts his status as an emotional and academic failure at sixty. The story centres on the Melpham Idol, a pagan phallic figure discovered in a bishop’s coffin. This archaeological find becomes the catalyst for turmoil within the academic world, raising questions about authenticity and legacy.

Richard Johnson leads a typically rich cast alongside Douglas Hodge and Elizabeth Spriggs. The characters are drawn from Wilson’s remarkable post-war vision, creating a tapestry of relationships defined by love, lust, and foibles. The ensemble work supports the narrative’s shift between tragedy, black comedy, and social satire.

The disc preserves the original 4:3 aspect ratio, maintaining the visual composition intended for this period piece. Audio is presented in Mono English, ensuring clarity for dialogue-heavy scenes. The physical package is compact, measuring 30 x 15 x 5 cm with a weight of 1 kg, making it easy to store on a shelf or take along.

• Three-episode dramatisation of Angus Wilson's novel
• Starring Richard Johnson, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Spriggs
• Mono English audio with 4:3 original aspect ratio
• Carton measures 30 x 15 x 5 cm and weighs 1 kg

Gerald Middleton is a wealthy and cultured professor of medieval history who, at sixty, feels both an academic and emotional failure. His broken marriage to the monstrous Inge has produced three children from whom he is estranged. Dollie, his best friends wife with whom he had a long and passionate love affair, has disappeared from his life in a cloud of recrimination and alcohol. And Gilbert Stokesay, the best friend, long dead in the trenches of the Great War, continues to haunt and threaten his self-esteem as an historian – all because of the Melpham Idol, a pagan phallic figure found in the coffin of a disinterred Bishop. It is the most important archaeological find of the century, a discovery that changes the course of scholarship and sets the academic world in turmoil. But is it a hoax? And if so who was responsible? And why? Dramatised in three episodes by Andrew Davies, from Angus Wilsons remarkable post-war novel, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes has a typically rich and interwoven cast of Wilson characters. It is a satire, a tragedy, a black comedy of manners and a deadly accurate examination of the loves, lusts and foibles of a middle-class family bent on self-destruction. Richard Johnson, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Spriggs 2FILMVIA250.02.0 MonoEnglish4:3 Original Aspect Ratio023.51VVE2828Bonanza Season 5 – 8DVD9337369028286