2xDVD - contains all 8 episodes

Married for 20 years, having bred two children who have flown the coop and made her a grandmother, Hester Fields is looking for a new start, a life of adventure in her middle years. She wants spice, she wants action, she wants to be endlessly interesting, but her husband William is an accountant in the City whose idea of excitement is to read the Financial Times over breakfast. Undaunted, Hester looks for activities to take her out of herself, and, living in Barnes (an upwardly mobile district in south-west London), the opportunities are endless - dieting, exercise, cycling, pottery classes, exercise classes, even fencing classes, and part-time jobs in catering, being an OAP meals-on-wheels deliverer, even at one point being William's office secretary.

Life is complicated, however, by the Fields' daughter Emma, their noisy neighbour Sonia (who liked to turn up at meal times), and the lurking presence of Hester's mother (cue cupboard-full of mother-in-law jokes) who lives in a building at the end of the Fields' garden. Fresh Fields, indeed, was held in such high regard that it won an International Emmy, and prompted a sequel...

CAST

Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers, Ann Beach, Ballard Berkerley, Fanny Rowe