The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
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1988
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.
Storyline
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.
Released
1988-01-10
Episode Runtime
Unknown
Language
English
Status
Canceled
Genre
Production
Unknown
CASTS
Eileen Atkins
Reader
Douglas Hodge
Raskolnikov
Hermione Lee
Self
George Steiner
Self
John Castle
Peter Walsh
Robert Daws
Septimus Warren-Smith
Rupert Degas
Reader: 'The Waves'
Katy Behean
Sonya
Vas Blackwood
(voice)
John Challis
(voice)
Mair Coleman
Mrs. Marmeladov
Derek Deadman
Convict 1
Charlie Drake
Marmeladov
Sabina Franklyn
(voice)
John Jones
Self
Patrick Malahide
Underground Man
Ian McDiarmid
Dostoevsky
Orla Pederson
Convict 2
Timothy Spall
Porfiry
Sara Sugarman
Nastasya
Ann Way
Old Woman
James Aubrey
Frank Budgen
Dermot Crowley
Joe Hynes
Sorcha Cusack
Molly Bloom
Tony Doyle
Narrator (voice)
Francesca Folan
Zoe Higgins
Clive Hart
Self
John Lynch
Stephen Dedalus
T. P. McKenna
Citizen
Deirdra Morris
Nora Joyce
Patricia Mort
May Dedalus
Bryan Murray
James Joyce
Patricia Quinn
Bella Cohen
David Suchet
Leopold Bloom
Frances Barber
Winnie Verloc
Hywel Bennett
Professor
Peter Blythe
Vladimir
Jim Broadbent
Ossipon
Keith Carabine
Self
Kenneth Colley
Chief Inspector Heat
Graham Crowden
Home Secretary
David Doyle
Stevie
Brian Glover
Adolf Verloc
Richard Pasco
Joseph Conrad (voice)
Julia Blalock
Mother
Eleanor David
Gilberte Swann
Dominic Jephcott
Robert St. Loup
Terence Kilmartin
Self
Zoe Mair
Young Gilberte / Mlle. St. Loup
Roger Rees
Marcel Proust / Marcel
Paul Reynolds
Young Marcel Proust
Grace Wilkinson
Albertine
Paul Brooke
Dr. Hofrat Behrens
Iain Cuthbertson
Mynheer Peeperkorn
Ben Daniels
Hans Castorp
John Grillo
Naphta
Haydn Gwynne
Mme. Chauchat
Tim McInnerny
Settembrini
John Shrapnel
Thomas Mann
Pippa Vickers
Nurse
Suzanne Bertish
Rebekka West
Brian Cox
Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Roger Lloyd Pack
Rosmer
David Ryall
Pastor Kroll
Anthony Storr
Self
D.M. Thomas
Self
Christina Greatrex
Lady Bradshaw
Eva Griffith
Young Clarissa Dalloway
Oona Kirsch
Sally Seton
Jenifer Landor
Lucrezia Warren-Smith
Gerard Logan
Young Peter Walsh
Susan Tracy
Mrs. Dalloway
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Marta Abba / Stepdaughter
Ian McNeice
Egisto Oliveri / Producer / Philip / Doctor
Reginald Stewart
Lamberto Picasso / Father / Belcridi
Patricia Thorns
Jane Frigero / Mother / Countess
John Woodvine
Ruggio Ruggeri / Henry IV / Leone
Peter Ackroyd
Self
Edward Fox
Reader
Michael Gough
Reader
Frank Kermode
Self
Craig Raine
Self
Stephen Spender
Self
David Barrass
Warder
John Bennett
Chaplain / Father
Michael Bryant
Advocate
Tatyana Colombo
Leni / Washerwoman
Kit Jackson
Clerk
Matthew Marsh
Warder
Bill Paterson
Titorelli
Lucy Pearce
Giggling Girl
Oscar Quitak
Judge
Tim Roth
Franz Kafka / Joseph K.
Barrie Rutter
Inspector
Naomi Wattis
Giggling Girl
Mark Wing-Davey
Franz Kafka (voice)
Melvyn Bragg
Self
Seasons
Season 1
1988
.11 Episodes
Season 1 of The Modern World: Ten Great Writers premiered on 1988-01-10.
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