The Modern World: Ten Great Writers(1988)
series - first aired/released 1988-01-10 - audience 8.0
Documentary
Directed by David Hinton, David Thomas, Kim Evans, Nigel Wattis
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.
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Cast
John CastlePeter Walsh
Robert DawsSeptimus Warren-Smith
Rupert DegasReader: 'The Waves'
Katy BeheanSonya
Vas Blackwood(voice)
John Challis(voice)- Mair ColemanMrs. Marmeladov
Derek DeadmanConvict 1
Charlie DrakeMarmeladov
Sabina Franklyn(voice)- John JonesSelf
Patrick MalahideUnderground Man
Ian McDiarmidDostoevsky- Orla PedersonConvict 2
Timothy SpallPorfiry
Sara SugarmanNastasya- Ann WayOld Woman
James AubreyFrank Budgen
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Anthony BurgessSelf
Dermot CrowleyJoe Hynes
Sorcha CusackMolly Bloom
Tony DoyleNarrator (voice)
Francesca FolanZoe Higgins- Clive HartSelf
John LynchStephen Dedalus
T. P. McKennaCitizen- Deirdra MorrisNora Joyce
- Patricia MortMay Dedalus
Bryan MurrayJames Joyce
Patricia QuinnBella Cohen
David SuchetLeopold Bloom
Frances BarberWinnie Verloc
Hywel BennettProfessor
Peter BlytheVladimir
Jim BroadbentOssipon- Keith CarabineSelf
Kenneth ColleyChief Inspector Heat
Graham CrowdenHome Secretary- David DoyleStevie
Brian GloverAdolf Verloc
Richard PascoJoseph Conrad (voice)
Eileen AtkinsReader, Virginia Woolf- V.S. PritchettSelf
Douglas HodgeStage Manger / Son / Ordolfo, Raskolnikov- Julia BlalockMother
Michel ButorSelf
Eleanor DavidGilberte Swann
Dominic JephcottRobert St. Loup- Terence KilmartinSelf
- Zoe MairYoung Gilberte / Mlle. St. Loup
Roger ReesMarcel Proust / Marcel
Paul ReynoldsYoung Marcel Proust- Grace WilkinsonAlbertine
Paul BrookeDr. Hofrat Behrens
Iain CuthbertsonMynheer Peeperkorn
Ben DanielsHans Castorp
John GrilloNaphta
Haydn GwynneMme. Chauchat- Nigel HamiltonSelf
Tim McInnernySettembrini
John ShrapnelThomas Mann- Pippa VickersNurse
Suzanne BertishRebekka West
Brian CoxHenrik Ibsen (voice)
Roger Lloyd PackRosmer- Michael MeyerSelf
John MortimerSelf
David RyallPastor Kroll- Anthony StorrSelf
- D.M. ThomasSelf
Christina GreatrexLady Bradshaw- Eva GriffithYoung Clarissa Dalloway
- Oona KirschSally Seton
Jenifer LandorLucrezia Warren-Smith- Hermione LeeSelf
- Gerard LoganYoung Peter Walsh
- Susan TracyMrs. Dalloway
Sylvestra Le TouzelMarta Abba / Stepdaughter
Ian McNeiceEgisto Oliveri / Producer / Philip / Doctor- Julian MitchellSelf
Leonardo SciasciaSelf- Reginald StewartLamberto Picasso / Father / Belcridi
- Patricia ThornsJane Frigero / Mother / Countess
John WoodvineRuggio Ruggeri / Henry IV / Leone- Peter AckroydSelf
T. S. EliotSelf (voice) (archive sound)
Edward FoxReader
Michael GoughReader- Frank KermodeSelf
- Craig RaineSelf
- Stephen SpenderSelf
David BarrassWarder
John BennettChaplain / Father
Michael BryantAdvocate- Tatyana ColomboLeni / Washerwoman
- Kit JacksonClerk
Matthew MarshWarder
Bill PatersonTitorelli- Lucy PearceGiggling Girl
Oscar QuitakJudge
Tim RothFranz Kafka / Joseph K.
Barrie RutterInspector
George SteinerSelf- Naomi WattisGiggling Girl
Mark Wing-DaveyFranz Kafka (voice)- Malcolm BradburySelf
Melvyn BraggSelf
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