TY  - GEN
N2  - Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.
AB  - Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.
T1  - Hard times
DA  - c2009.
CY  - [England] :
CY  - Burbank, CA :
AU  - Langridge, Richard.
AU  - Barnes, Peter,
AU  - Bates, Alan,
AU  - Peck, Bob,
AU  - Paterson, Bill,
AU  - Walter, Harriet.
AU  - Grant, Richard E.,
AU  - Deutsch, Stephen,
AU  - Elliott, Denholm.
AU  - Dickens, Charles,
VL  - 1
CN  - PR4561.A2
CN  - PR4561.A2
PB  - BBC Video :
PB  - 2 Entertain Video ;
PB  - Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video,
PP  - [England] :
PP  - Burbank, CA :
LA  - eng
LA  - Closed captioned.
PY  - c2009.
N1  - Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
N1  - "A BBC TV production in association with WGBH"--Container.
N1  - Special feature: The signalman / starring Denholm Elliott.
ID  - 456178
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Utilitarianism
KW  - Education
SN  - 1419880810 (set)
SN  - 9781419880810 (set)
TI  - Hard times
ER  -