Series of plays by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters from his novel The Glittering Prizes, which followed the fortunes of scholarship boy Adam Morris and his contemporaries at Cambridge University in the early 1950s. Decades have passed, and we now catch up with Adam and his friends (and enemies) in the days of John Major's government.

Adam is now a successful novelist and screenwriter, and his daughter Rachel is living in California with his old classicist friend Bill Bourne. But Bill is now terminally ill, and Adam faces the prospect of a trip to Los Angeles that will turn out to have some unexpected consequences.

Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti
Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann
Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery
Mike Clode ...... Mark Wing-Davey
Jason Singer ...... Simon Greenall
Clifford Ayres ...... Colin Macfarlane
Samantha Sabatini ...... Laurence Bouvard
Joann ...... Lachele Carl
Frank Skipton ...... Kenneth Danziger
Mitchell Ambrose ...... Ben Onwukwe

Produced by Jo Wheeler

Directed by Pete Atkin

An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. Show less