The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Piers Haggard
Casts & Crew
Vanessa Redgrave
Maximilian Schell
Charles Edwards
Prunella Scales
Victoria Smurfit
Victoria Hamilton
Sebastian Koch
Stephanie Stumph
Richard Hope
Lucas Gregorowicz
Maisie Dimbleby
Toby Fisher
Alastair Mackenzie
Cherith Mellor
Hugh Sachs
Imogen Bain
Rebecca Blake
Amanda Boxer
Max Cane
Tim Faraday
Patrick Godfrey
Nickolas Grace
Rosalind Knight
Neil May
Penelope McGhie
Christopher Ravenscroft
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