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A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
Writing:
- Anthony Powell
Release Date:
Thu, Oct 09, 1997
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Simon Russell Beale
Widmerpool
James Purefoy
Nicholas Jenkins
James Fleet
Moreland
Jonathan Cake
Peter Templer
Paul Rhys
Charles Stringham
Claire Skinner
Jean
Miranda Richardson
Pamela Flitton
Adrian Scarborough
JG Quiggin
Edward Fox
Uncle Giles
John Standing
Nicholas Jenkins (older)
Gillian Barge
Mrs Erdleigh
Annabel Mullion
Mona
Oliver Ford Davies
Le Bas
Robin Bailey
Uncle Alfred
Nicholas Jones
Bob Duport
Nigel Lindsay
Odo Stevens
Nicholas Rowe
David Pennistone
Michael Williams
Ted Jeavons
Sarah Badel
Lady Molly
Zoë Wanamaker
Audrey Maclintick
Harriet Walter
Mildred
Caroline Harker
Priscilla
Eileen Atkins
Brightman
James Callis
Gwinnett
Paul Brooke
Maclintick
James D'Arcy
Nicholas Jenkins (student)
Alan Bennett
Sillery
Joanna David
Isobel (older)
Emma Fielding
Isobel
John Gielgud
St. John Clarke
Frank Middlemass
Edgar Deacon
Chris Lang
Chips Lovell
Richard Pasco
Sir Magnus Donners
Patrick Godfrey
General Conyers
Tony Osoba
Colonel Flores
Nicola Walker
Gypsy Jones
Emily Mortimer
Polly Duport
Robert Pugh
Biggs
Lucy Fleming
Jean (older)
Julian Wadham
General Liddament
Jamie Glover
Robert Tolland
Andrew Havill
Sunny Farebrother
Grant Thatcher
Mark Members
Colin Baker
Canon Fenneau
Mark Dexter
Tompsitt
Richard Leaf
Barnabas Henderson
Carmen du Sautoy
Miss Weedon
Amanda Walker
Mrs. Conyers
Kate Cavanagh
Billson
Anastasia Hille
Matilda
James Villiers
Buster Foxe
Danny Worters
Nicholas Jenkins (boy)
Geraldine Alexander
Susan
Osmund Bullock
Erridge
Sarah Crowden
Miss Orchard
Barbara Durkin
Betty
Nicola King
Mrs Jenkins
David Yelland
Mr Jenkins
David MacCreedy
Bracey
Bryan Pringle
Smith
Michael Wade
Dr Brandreth
Tim Wylton
Albert
Rohan McCullough
Flavia Wisebite
Kevin Colson
Louis Glober
Jeremy Child
Roddy Cutts
Matthew Sim
Scorpio Murtlock
Bobby Webster
Templer (student)
Amy Simcock
Jean (student)
Luke de Lacey
Stringham (student)
Rupert Wickham
Jimmy Stripling
Season 1:
The first film looks at the life of Kenneth Widmerpool, a tubby, much-teased boy at school who is to grow into a determined influence on his friends. Among these friends is Nicholas Jenkins, who is having an adulterous affair.
Nick Jenkins and his friends have moved from twenty- to thirty-somethings. Marriages are beginning to crumble and youthful optimism is fading fast. Nick's affair with Jean Templer is coming to an end, but all unhappiness is swept aside when he meets Isobel Tolland, who takes him into London's bohemian life. A world of heavy drinking, all-night parties and colourful eccentrics. But, across the Channel in Germany, Hitler's power is rising and war seems inevitable.
WWII has broken out and Nick Jenkins is in the army, leaving behind his wife Isobel, who is expecting their first child. Meanwhile, Kenneth Widmerpool makes the most of his connections and soon rises through the ranks to enjoy power and prestige. This episode also sees the arrival of Pamela Flitton, a dangerously beautiful woman who can cast a spell on all the men she meets - even the normally cool-headed Widmerpool.
A decade has passed. Nick and his wife Isobel have moved to the country. Widmerpool has become a Labour MP and is dabbling in Eastern European politics. His wife Pamela is behaving even more outrageously, and gossip surrounding her bizarre sex life is raging.
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