Colin Thubron - A Cruel Madness

Daniel Pashley sees a familiar woman in the grounds of a psychiatric unit where he teaches English once a week.

Surely she's Sophia, a country doctor with whom he had a passionate affair which ended abruptly 10 years earlier..?

A nightmare quest as he battles to discover why she is there..?

Starring Robert Glenister and Harriet Walker.

Dramatised by Colin Thubron from his own haunting novel, published in 1984.

Daniel Pashley - Robert Glenister

Sophia - Harriet Walter

McQuitty - Jonathan Adams

Nisbet - Keith Drinkel

Orgill - David Bannerman

Psychiatrist - Peter Penry Jones

Mother - Joanna Wake

Compere - Mark Straker

Patient - Terence Edmond

Boy - Neil Roberts

Director: John Theocharis

Daniel is shocked to spot his ex-lover in a psychiatric hospital.

Teacher Daniel Pashley spots his ex-lover at a psychiatric hospital. But is she a doctor or a patient? Stars Robert Glenister.

Teacher Daniel Pashley will never forget his passionate feelings for a doctor - Sophia - who he was once involved with. Then, one day, he sees her again in a psychiatric unit and is determined to find out why she is there.

By Colin Thubron from his own novel

Daniel is shocked to see ex lover Sophia in a mental hospital and asks why she's there.

Teacher Daniel Pashley spots his ex-lover at a mental hospital. But is Sophia a doctor - or a patient? Stars Robert Glenister.