Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Eve Matheson & Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray s classic filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios Set in the Napoleonic Wars Vanity Fair is a rich & resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray there is great quantity of eating & drinking making love & jilting laughing & the contrary smoking cheating fighting dancing & fiddling Becky (Eve Matheson) the penniless orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera dancer & Amelia Sedley (Rebecca Saire) the sheltered child of a rich City Merchant are unlikely but firm friends From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo Vanity Fair tells their story Becky an irrepressible schemer one of the most seductive social climbers of all time who will stop at nothing to get what she wants While her friend the meek & mild Amelia pursues the opposite course In the end both girls get what they want but not quite in the way they planned