Drama: BELGRAVIA: THE NEXT CHAPTER
Julian Fellowes’ TV adaptation of his novel in 2020 took a slightlywith a setting in the early-19th century, beginning two days before the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. But it was still a story of class difference, with illegitimate children, villainous poshos with gambling debts and an honest merchant in the form of Philip Glenister’s James Trenchard. This sequel, written and developed by Helen Edmundson, is set decades later in 1871, when Frederick, the third Lord Trenchard (the family clearly went up in the world), played by Benjamin Wainwright is courting Clara Dunn (Harriet Slater), a newcomer to society.
