

2015–2015 · BBC Two · Ended
The three-part serial 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.
Monday at 21:00 (Europe/London)
This series has ended.
Last aired
S01E03 · Episode 3
2015-08-10
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Episode 1
2015-07-27 · 60 min
Episode 2
2015-08-03 · 60 min
Episode 3
2015-08-10 · 60 min

Lydia Leonard
Virginia Woolf (younger)
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