Summary
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.
Cast
Anthony Burgess
Eileen Atkins
Douglas Hodge
Hermione Lee
George Steiner
John Castle
Robert Daws
Rupert Degas
Katy Behean
Vas Blackwood
John Challis
Mair Coleman
Derek Deadman
Charlie Drake
Sabina Franklyn
John Jones
Patrick Malahide
Ian McDiarmid
Orla Pederson
Timothy Spall
Sara Sugarman
Ann Way
James Aubrey
Dermot Crowley
Sorcha Cusack
Tony Doyle
Francesca Folan
Clive Hart
John Lynch
T. P. McKenna
Deirdra Morris
Patricia Mort
Bryan Murray
Patricia Quinn
David Suchet
Frances Barber
Hywel Bennett
Peter Blythe
Jim Broadbent
Keith Carabine
Kenneth Colley
Graham Crowden
David Doyle
Brian Glover
Richard Pasco
V.S. Pritchett
Julia Blalock
Michel Butor
Eleanor David
Dominic Jephcott
Terence Kilmartin
Zoe Mair
Roger Rees
Paul Reynolds
Grace Wilkinson
Paul Brooke
Iain Cuthbertson
Ben Daniels
John Grillo
Haydn Gwynne
Nigel Hamilton
Tim McInnerny
John Shrapnel
Pippa Vickers
Suzanne Bertish
Brian Cox
Roger Lloyd Pack
Michael Meyer
John Mortimer
David Ryall
Anthony Storr
D.M. Thomas
Christina Greatrex
Eva Griffith
Oona Kirsch
Jenifer Landor
Gerard Logan
Susan Tracy
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Ian McNeice
Julian Mitchell
Leonardo Sciascia
Reginald Stewart
Patricia Thorns
John Woodvine
Peter Ackroyd
T. S. Eliot
Edward Fox
Michael Gough
Frank Kermode
Craig Raine
Stephen Spender
David Barrass
John Bennett
Michael Bryant
Tatyana Colombo
Kit Jackson
Matthew Marsh
Bill Paterson
Lucy Pearce
Oscar Quitak
Tim Roth
Barrie Rutter
Naomi Wattis
Mark Wing-Davey
Malcolm Bradbury
Melvyn Bragg
Crew
Status:
Canceled
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
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