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Life in Squares

Life in Squares
★ 6.5/10•2015•57m•18+•Drama
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The tangled loves of the Bloomsbury Group.

The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.

Simon Kaijser · Director

Amanda Coe · Writer

StatusEnded
Runtime57m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 27, 2015

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E157m

Episode 1

Painter Vanessa Stephen and her writer sister Virginia embark on a life of unexpected, post-Victorian freedom in bohemian Bloomsbury. But when they are introduced to flamboyant male admirers, their idyll is rocked and the sisters' relationship is threatened.

Jul 27, 2015

Episode 2 - Episode 2E257m

Episode 2

As war descends on Europe, the Bloomsbury friends struggle to build a life outside London. Virginia weds Leonard Woolf and begins a unique, unexpectedly happy marriage, which is in stark contrast to Vanessa and Clive's failing relationship. Vanessa comes to the painful realisation that she is in love with gay Duncan Grant and so begins a life devoted to him, painting and her children.

Aug 3, 2015

Episode 3 - Episode 3E357m

Episode 3

Twenty years have passed and it is 1937. Duncan and Vanessa remain at Charleston Farmhouse, painting, living and loving alongside each other. Vanessa’s children Julian, Quentin and Angelica also live with them. Julian is determined to fight against Franco in the Spanish civil war, while Angelica, who remains unaware of her true parentage, goes to London to become an actress.

Aug 10, 2015

Actors

Eve Best

Eve Best

Older Vanessa Bell

Phoebe Fox

Phoebe Fox

Young Vanessa Bell

Lydia Leonard

Lydia Leonard

Young Virginia Woolf

James Norton

James Norton

Young Duncan Grant

Ed Birch

Ed Birch

Lytton Strachey

Christian Brassington

Christian Brassington

Cuthbert

Al Weaver

Al Weaver

Leonard Woolf

Jack Davenport

Jack Davenport

David Garnett

James Northcote

James Northcote

Adrian Stephen

Lucy Boynton

Lucy Boynton

Angelica Garnett

Jerome Finch

Saxon Sydney-Turner

Catherine McCormack

Catherine McCormack

Virginia Woolf

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

David Garnett

Rupert Penry-Jones

Rupert Penry-Jones

Duncan Grant

Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser

Dr. Hyslop

Deborah Findlay

Deborah Findlay

Aunt Jane

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