The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.

Eve Bestas Older Vanessa Bell
Phoebe Foxas Young Vanessa Bell
Lydia Leonardas Young Virginia Woolf
James Nortonas Young Duncan Grant
Ed Birchas Lytton Strachey
Christian Brassingtonas Cuthbert
Al Weaveras Leonard Woolf
Jack Davenportas David Garnett
James Northcoteas Adrian Stephen
Lucy Boyntonas Angelica Garnett