High Hopes

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

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  Phil Davis

  Cyril Bender
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  Ruth Sheen

  Shirley
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  Edna Doré

  Mrs Bender
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  Philip Jackson

  Martin Burke
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  Heather Tobias

  Valerie
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  Lesley Manville

  Lætitia Boothe-Brain
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  David Bamber

  Rupert Boothe-Brain
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  Jason Watkins

  Wayne
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  Diane-Louise Jordan

  Chemist Shop Assistant
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  Linda Beckett

  Receptionist