Roger Carbury Douglas Hodge Assets: Carbury Hall (the family "pile") and possessor of the family conscience. Prospects: lost dreams and heart-broken for the love of his life, cousin Hetta For Douglas Hodge, The Way We Live Now brought unexpected comfort: "Today, we often think the whole financial and economic infrastructure of Britain is collapsing, not just the trains, floods, foot and mouth, and so on, but also the kind of values and moral sense of the way we live today. I read this drama and looked back to 1875 to find things haven't really changed. So, in a way, I found the whole thing quite reassuring." Hodge can understand why the book The Way We Live Now did not get the reception it deserved when it was first published. "Trollope had been away from Britain for some time, and returned to find everything had started to slide. He turned his gun on every aspect of society and probably caused some offence. He challenged the way the establishment worked -- how power had moved on, old money had disappeared, and Corinthian values had been dissipated -- the book was bound not to be heralded. In some senses, my character of Roger Carbury is Trollope writing in a great fire of indignation about every aspect of English society," he says. Roger Carbury is a man still living in the 18th century. He's old money with old-fashioned ideas of marrying his cousin Hetta until she falls headlong in love with his friend, Paul Montague. The prospect of Hetta's brother, Sir Felix, inheriting his home and losing it in a game of cards doesn't cheer up cousin Roger, either. This is the third Andrew Davies adaptation Hodge has worked on. He also had roles in Middlemarch (Dr. Lydgate) and Anglo Saxon Attitudes. Both were award-winners. Past television credits include Capital City (the yuppie Declan) and A Scold's Bridle. His most recent TV production was The Russian Bride, where he played a character obsessively in love again, and coming next year is Red Cap, a one-off special with Tamzin Outhwaite for BBC One. His first television was Behaving Madly with Judi Dench. Among his many theatre credits are Trevor Nunn's Betrayal (National), No Man's Land and Coriolanus (Almeida/Comedy) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regents Park Theatre). Immediately prior to The Way We Live Now, Douglas was appearing with Rupert Graves and Michael Gambon in Pinter's The Caretaker, for which he was nominated for the Olivier award for the part of Aston. His films include Saigon Baby (BBC), Bliss, and Ken Russell's Salome's Last Dance.