Secret Orchards

The true story of successful and respectable Edwardian businessman Roger Ackerley, who managed to conceal the existence of a secret love and the three daughters she bore, from his society wife and remaining children. Known to the daughters only as 'Uncle Bodger', they remained unaware he was their father until after his death.

• Richard LoncraineDirector
• J.R. AckerleyWriter

• Freddie JonesRoger Ackerley
• Judy ParfittMuriel Perry
• Joseph BlatchleyJoe Ackerley
• Sophie ThompsonDiana Ackerley
• Phoebe NichollsStella
• Suzanne BurdenHelen
• Noel DysonNetta Ackerley