Wilson’s remarkable post-war novel, ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES was dramatised in three episodes by Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones’ Diary) in 1992, and went on to win a BAFTA for Best Serial Drama, as well as awards from the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Broadcasting Press Guild. On 27th August 2007, this deadly accurate examination of the loves, lusts and foibles of a middle-class family bent on self-destruction will be released by Network on DVD. Gerald Middleton (Richard Johnson – Jump!) 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, (Elizabeth Spriggs - Sense and Sensibility), has produced three children from whom he is estranged. His best friend’s wife Dollie, played by both Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off) and Dorothy Tutin (South Riding), 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..?Anglo Saxon Attitudes