After Pilkington

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After Pilkington was a one-off BBC television drama by Simon Gray, starring Miranda Richardson, Bob Peck and Barry Foster. It was first broadcast in 1987.

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The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate becomes shattered when he is introduced to the wife of a new faculty member. It is his childhood sweetheart, Penny (aka Patch). She enlists his help in finding a missing archaeologist named Pilkington. As his obsession with her grows, he is drawn into a tangle of misunderstanding, intrigue, and murder.