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🗓️ 22 March 2026
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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 1 of The Forsytes Season 1.
For acting legend Susan Hampshire, playing Fleur in the 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga was a huge moment in her career. Now, nearly 60 years later, she returns to the story as the wealthy Lady Carteret in The Forsytes. In this conversation, we talk about how Susan approached playing Lady Carteret, as well as her decades long career.
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| 0:24.5 | London 1877, the illustrious Forsyte family gathers his young Jolian Forsyte, heir apparent to the family's stockbroking firm, |
| 0:30.4 | awaits his fiancée Francis's progression down the aisle. The pair are to be wed in this |
| 0:35.4 | strategic alliance, as Francis, a queen of high society, was handpicked to cement the foresight's status among London's elite. |
| 0:43.4 | However, despite their wealth, alliances, and appearances, London's old money families do not entirely welcome the foresight's with open arms, particularly Lady Carteret of the well-heeled Carteret family. |
| 0:56.1 | Ah, Lady Carteret. |
| 0:59.1 | Oh dear. |
| 1:00.8 | We were hoping to keep Miss Louisa to ourselves. |
| 1:03.7 | My apologies. |
| 1:05.7 | Do you know Mrs. Francis Forsyte and her daughter, June? |
| 1:10.7 | Good day to you. How'd you do? |
| 1:13.9 | We need a gown for June's 18th birthday ball. |
| 1:17.1 | I hope you received our invitation. |
| 1:20.0 | So kind. |
| 1:22.3 | Try not to let Mrs. Forsyte monopolize you. |
| 1:26.4 | Ten years on from her wedding, Francis now settled into life as a shrewd and calculating member of the Forsyts, |
| 1:33.0 | has grand plans of uniting the Forsyts and the Carterets through a marriage between her daughter, June, |
| 1:38.3 | and Lady Carter's grandson Horatio. |
| 1:40.7 | But Lady Carteret isn't too keen on shortchanging her grandson's future. |
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