The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
tv show
11 total episodes
-
1 seasons
First Aired January 10, 1988
Genres:
Overview
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.
Cast
Anthony Burgess
as
Self
Eileen Atkins
as
Reader
Douglas Hodge
as
Raskolnikov
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Hermione Lee
as
Self
George Steiner
as
Self
John Castle
as
Peter Walsh
Robert Daws
as
Septimus Warren-Smith
Rupert Degas
as
Reader: 'The Waves'
Katy Behean
as
Sonya
Vas Blackwood
as
(voice)
John Challis
as
(voice)
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Mair Coleman
as
Mrs. Marmeladov