When orphan Pip meets the escaped convict Magwitch within an overgrown churchyard in the Kent marshes, little does he know that the incident changes his life permanently. Some years later, right now apprenticed to his blacksmith brother-in-law, Pip falls in love with the stunning Estella. Her half-crazed and bitter guardian Miss Havisham, however, exerts a malign influence over the girl and makes a wedge between the two. Pip abandons his root base and, with ‘great anticipations’ to become a gentleman, minds for London culture. There he starts to receive riches from a mysterious benefactor… Pip’s pursuit to find his true identity, and his growth to maturity through misfortune and misery, type the basis of the atmospheric tale starring Douglas Hodge, Geraldine McEwan and Amanda Redman. Directed by Sally Avens.