The cast
The four-part serial features 25 main characters and six storylines, so casting was a mammoth task for Stafford-Clark and director, Tom Vaughan.
Credits
| Producer | Nigel Stafford-Clark |
| Director | Tom Vaughan |
| Screenplay | Andrew Davies |
| Executive Producers | Sally Haynes |
| Bill Boyes | |
| Laura Mackie | |
| Executive Producer (WGBH) | Rebecca Eaton |
| Composer | Debbie Wiseman |
| Director of Photography | Mike Eley |
| Production Designer | Gerry Scott |
| Production Executive | Helen Vallis |
| Line Producer | Charles Hubbard |
| Script Editor | Ellie Wood |
| Editor | Chris Ridsdale |
| Costume Designer | Andrea Galer |
The cast
| Louis Trevelyan | Oliver Dimsdale |
| Emily Trevelyan | Laura Fraser |
| Hugh Stanbury | Stephen Campbell Moore |
| Nora Rowley | Christina Cole |
| Colonel Osborne | Bill Nighy |
| Aunt Stanbury | Anna Massey |
| Sir Marmaduke Rowley | Geoffrey Palmer |
| Lady Rowley | Geraldine James |
| Mr Outhouse | John Alderton |
| Mr Gibson | David Tennant |
| Dorothy Stanbury | Caroline Martin |
| Mrs Stanbury | Joanna David |
| Priscilla Stanbury | Amy Marston |
| Mr Glascock | Raymond Coulthard |
| Mrs French | Barbara Flynn |
| Camilla French | Claudie Blakley |
| Arabella French | Fenella Woolgar |
| Mr Bozzle | Ron Cook |
| Mrs Bozzle | Patsy Palmer |
| Mr Crump | James Bolam |
| Lady Milborough | Jane Lapotaire |
| Brooke Burgess | Matthew Goode |
| Caroline Spalding | Anna-Louise Plowman |
| Mrs Outhouse | Lynn Farleigh |
| QC | Philip Madoc |