2/3. Omar Sharif stars in this family saga chronicling the downwardly mobile life of a middle-class family in early
20th-century Egypt. This episode covers the late 1920s to the mid-1930s, when an outbreak of typhoid has a tragic effect on the family. Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz , the Nobel Prize-winning
Egyptian writer who died in August. Recorded in Egypt.
Other cast members: Nairy Avedissian , Radwa Elgabry , Salah Fahmy Yara Goubran , Caroline Khalil , Rena Malak , Dina Nadim , Ahmed Nour Sherif Nour , Ola Roshdy , Sedky Sakhar , Hany Seef , Saymaa Shalan , Hugh Sowden , Mika Thabet Yeve Youssef and Ekram Zalat
Music by Sacha Puttnam Producer/Director John Dryden Rptd from Sunday