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2003 · Documentary · Drama
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TV series / 1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
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.
The story
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.
The seasons
Season 1
Season 1
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Cast
Anthony BurgessSelf
Eileen AtkinsReader · Virginia Woolf
Douglas HodgeRaskolnikov · Stage Manger / Son / Ordolfo
Hermione LeeSelf
George SteinerSelf
John CastlePeter Walsh
Robert DawsSeptimus Warren-Smith
Rupert DegasReader: 'The Waves'
Katy BeheanSonya
Vas Blackwood(voice)
John Challis(voice)
Mair ColemanMrs. Marmeladov
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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
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)
V.S. PritchettSelf
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
Gerard LoganYoung Peter Walsh
Susan TracyMrs. Dalloway
Sylvestra Le TouzelMarta Abba / Stepdaughter
Ian McNeiceEgisto Oliveri / Producer / Philip / Doctor
