It’s the 1920s. Lewis Eliot gets caught up in a political scandal that engulfs the family of his best friend, Charles March.

CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.

Stars Adam Godley and Bill Wallis.

Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.

Narrator …. David Haig
Lewis Eliot …. Adam Godley
George Passant ….. Bill Wallis
Marion …. Laura Doddington
Sheila Knight …. Anastasia Hille
Herbert Getliffe .... Stephen Moore
Percy Hall .... Danny Webb
Charles March .... Jamie Glover
Leonard March .... John Standing
Katherine March ….. Carla Simpson
Ann Simon .... Emma Woolliams
Mrs Getliffe ... Suzanna Hamilton
Revd Knight .... Brett Usher

Director: Jeremy Howe & Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. Show less