It was Dame Peggy's last dramatic performance[2] and Saeed Jaffrey played the role of the Rajah.
The original production was broadcast again after the death of John Tydeman in 2020 preceded by a tribute from Tom Stoppard.
In 1930 (the year of Gandhi's Salt March) Flora Crewe (Felicity Kendal), a young poet with a somewhat scandalous reputation, travels to India for her health, where she delivers a series of lectures on British literary society.
Meanwhile in contemporary England another young Indian painter, Anish, the son of Nirad, visits Mrs Eleanor Swan (Peggy Ashcroft), the sister of Flora Crewe.
She and Anish clash over interpretation of Indian history and untangle the relationship of Flora and Nirad.