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"Enid," made by Carnival Films, part of NBC Universal, is among the tentpole shows of BBC4's fall and winter season, announced Thursday.
The author struggled to live up to the perfect worlds she created for children in her personal life. In 1942 she divorced her first husband, played by Matthew MacFadyen, to marry her lover (Denis Lawson).
"Enid" is one of four dramas depicting iconic women.
Sophie Okonedo will play Winnie Mandela, the ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, in "Mrs. Mandela."
"Margot" features Anne-Marie Duff as prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn.
And "Gracie!" stars Jane Horrocks as Gracie Fields, the highest-paid film actress in the world in the 1930s, whose complicated private life involved an affair with Hollywood director Monty Banks, played by Tom Hollander.
