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A Dance to the Music of Time

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A dramatisation in six parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM of The Valley oj Bones. The Soldier's Art and The Military Philosophers, books seven, eight and nine of ANTHONY POWELL 'S sequence of 12 novels.
Sent from his Divisional HQ to London Nicholas Jenkins spends an evening in the Café Royal with the composer. Hugh Moreland. and his mistress. Audrey Maclintick. Priscilla Lovell. Jenkins' sister-in-law, and Odo Stevens join them. It is the spring of 1941. and London is being bombed by the Luftwaffe.
4: The Soldier's Art (2)
Chips Lovell JOHN LEVITT Priscilla.PENNY BROWNJOHN Odo Stevens JOHN BADDELEY
Title music composed by ANTONY MIALL
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD (Repeated: Tues 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Anthony Powell
Unknown:
John Levitt
Composed By:
Antony Miall
Directed By:
Graham Gauld
Nicholas Jenkins:
Noel Johnson
the younger Nicholas:
Gareth Johnson
Charles Stringham:
Simon Cadell
Widmerpool:
Brian Hewlett
Moreland:
Sion Probert
Audrey Maclintick:
Jenny Lee
Max:
Pilgrim David Alder
Eleanor:
Anne Rosenfeld
Bithel:
Anthony Hall
Hogbourne Johnson:
Frank Duncan
Biggs:
Roger Snowdon
Soper:
Martin Friend
Pedlar:
Jonathan Scott
Cheeseman:
Christopher Scott
Air-raid Warden:
Haydn Wood

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