Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband Frederick 'Boy' Browning, and her largely unrequited infatuations with American publishing tycoon's wife Ellen Doubleday and the actress Gertrude Lawrence.

• BBC Arts
• Geraldine Somerville
• Elizabeth McGovern
• Janet McTeer
• Natalie Best
• Felicity Montagu
• Andrew Havill
• Christopher Malcolm
• Malcolm Sinclair