David Thacker

The Mayor of Casterbridge David Thacker

British drama in which farm worker Michael Henchard (Ciarán Hinds), while travelling with his family in search of work, in a fit of drunken madness manages to auction off both his wife Susan (Juliet Aubrey) and baby daughter. 18 years later, Henchard is set to become mayor of Casterbridge. But when his wife and her daughter (Jodhi May) return, they set a disastrous chain of events in motion.