Mr Keynes' Dance

1926. Maynard Keynes has long been a thorn in the side of the British Establishment. Rejected for his radical ideas, he has made an unlikely marriage to a Russian ballerina.

While Maynard frets about the ever-growing dole queues and plans his route to power by way of the magnetic Lloyd George, Lydia is tormented by the thought of her family in Leningrad. Exiled by the Russian Revolution, she has found fame and fortune as a dancer. Yet however demanding the role of stage celebrity, it is less challenging than that of the supposedly respectable and fortunate Mrs Keynes.

Then comes the Wall Street Crash, followed by a depression the likes of which the world has never seen. In the turmoil of the 1930s, the intellectual Maynard finds that answers must be sought in the most unlikely places.