The Laureate
Set against the glamorous backdrop of Britain's roaring '20s, The Laureate tells the story of young British War Poet Robert Graves, who is married with four children when he meets and becomes romantically involved with Laura Riding, a writer from America. Defying the conventions of polite society, Riding moves in with Graves and his wife living as a menage a tois. Then with the arrival of strappingly handsome Irish poet Geoffrey Phibbs, the arrangement becomes a menage a quatre. But soon tensions and rivalries become so fraught that Graves is a suspect for attempted murder.
In the Roaring Twenties they rewrote the rules.
Cast

Tom Hughes
Robert Graves

Laura Haddock
Nancy Nicholson

Dianna Agron
Laura Riding

Julian Glover
Alfred Graves

Fra Fee
Geoffrey Phibbs

Indica Watson
Catherine Nicholson

Patricia Hodge
Amy Graves

Christien Anholt
T. S. Eliot

Edwin Thomas
Edmund Blunden

Edward Bennett
Jonathan Cape

Timothy Renouf
Siegfried Sassoon

Orlando James
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