Claire Skinner
Agnes Conway
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The Wingless Bird: With Claire Skinner, Edward Atterton, Anne Reid, Michelle Charles. Agnes manages family affairs on eve of WWI, helps sister Jessie marry across class lines. Faces own class divide when courted by Charles despite parents' disapproval. Her heart torn between Charles and his soldier brother Reginald.
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The Wingless Bird (1997) with Claire Skinner, Anne Reid and Julian Wadham; The Moth (1997) with Jack Davenport, Juliet Aubrey and Justine Waddell; The Rag Nymph (1997) with Honeysuckle Weeks, Alec Newman and Val McLane; The Round Tower (1998) with Emilia Fox, Ben Miles and Denis Lawson
TV. VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever. Catherine Cookson's The Wingless Bird ★★½ The Wingless Bird 1997Agnes Conway (Skinner) is the strong-minded daughter of a Newcastle shop-owner in class-conscious England in December, 1913.
The nine species of moa were the only wingless birds, lacking even the vestigial wings that all other ratites have. They were the largest terrestrial animals and dominant herbivores in New Zealand's forest, shrubland, and subalpine ecosystems until the arrival of the Māori, and were hunted only by the Haast's eagle.
Sep 1, 1990 · 4.04. 1,080 ratings55 reviews. Agnes Conway, the daughter of a middle-class shopkeeper, escapes the abusive tyranny of her father through marriage into the aristocracy, only to have her golden dreams tragically altered by the outbreak of World War I.
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IMDbPro. All topics. Plot. The Wingless Bird. Summaries. On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs.
Feb 8, 1998 · Publication date. 1998-02-08. Topics. 1997, 5 star, World War One, BBC, Period Drama, Period Costume, TV Mini-Series, From novel, Catherine Cookson, Title based on poem, Northern England, Edwardian Era, Class differences, 1910 ish, Rape, Child to be, Confectioner, Candy, Confectionery, Filmed in: River Wear, Durham, County Durham, England, UK ...
