TV series · 1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
First aired 10 January 1988 Documentary TMDB ↗
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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Michael Gough
as Reader
Anthony Burgess
as Self
Graham Crowden
as Home Secretary
Charlie Drake
as Marmeladov
John Bennett
as Chaplain / Father
George Steiner
as Self
Iain Cuthbertson
as Mynheer Peeperkorn
T. P. McKenna
as Citizen
Peter Blythe
as Vladimir
Eileen Atkins
as Virginia Woolf
Eileen Atkins
as Reader
Brian Glover
as Adolf Verloc
David Ryall
as Pastor Kroll
Tony Doyle
as Narrator (voice)
Kenneth Colley
as Chief Inspector Heat
Derek Deadman
as Convict 1
John Castle
as Peter Walsh
John Challis
as (voice)
John Grillo
as Naphta
John Shrapnel
as Thomas Mann
Ian McDiarmid
as Dostoevsky
Roger Rees
as Marcel Proust / Marcel
Patricia Quinn
as Bella Cohen
Roger Lloyd Pack
as Rosmer
Hywel Bennett
as Professor
Barrie Rutter
as Inspector
David Suchet
as Leopold Bloom
Christina Greatrex
as Lady Bradshaw
Dermot Crowley
as Joe Hynes
Hermione Lee
as Self
Sabina Franklyn
as (voice)
Eleanor David
as Gilberte Swann
Tim McInnerny
as Settembrini
Timothy Spall
as Porfiry
Frances Barber
as Winnie Verloc
Robert Daws
as Septimus Warren-Smith
Katy Behean
as Sonya
Douglas Hodge
as Raskolnikov
Douglas Hodge
as Stage Manger / Son / Ordolfo
John Lynch
as Stephen Dedalus
Tim Roth
as Franz Kafka / Joseph K.
Vas Blackwood
as (voice)
Sara Sugarman
as Nastasya
Ben Daniels
as Hans Castorp
Rupert Degas
as Reader: 'The Waves'
Mair Coleman
as Mrs. Marmeladov
Oona Kirsch
as Sally Seton
Gerard Logan
as Young Peter Walsh