The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)
Plot.
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 & Crew.

Nigel Wattis
Director

David Thomas
Director

Kim Evans
Director

David Hinton
Director / Writer

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

Anthony Burgess
Self

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)

V.S. Pritchett
Self

Eileen Atkins
Virginia Woolf / Reader

Douglas Hodge
Raskolnikov / Stage Manger / Son / Ordolfo

Julia Blalock
Mother

Michel Butor
Self

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

Nigel Hamilton
Self

Tim McInnerny
Settembrini

John Shrapnel
Thomas Mann

Pippa Vickers
Nurse

Suzanne Bertish
Rebekka West

Brian Cox
Henrik Ibsen (voice)

Roger Lloyd Pack
Rosmer

Michael Meyer
Self

John Mortimer
Self

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

Hermione Lee
Self

Gerard Logan
Young Peter Walsh

Susan Tracy
Mrs. Dalloway

Sylvestra Le Touzel
Marta Abba / Stepdaughter

Ian McNeice
Egisto Oliveri / Producer / Philip / Doctor

Julian Mitchell
Self

Leonardo Sciascia
Self

Reginald Stewart
Lamberto Picasso / Father / Belcridi

Patricia Thorns
Jane Frigero / Mother / Countess

John Woodvine
Ruggio Ruggeri / Henry IV / Leone

Peter Ackroyd
Self

T. S. Eliot
Self (voice) (archive sound)

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
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