It’s 1937. The politics of the Cambridge college where Lewis teaches becomes poisonous as the country stands on the brink of war.

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

Stars Adam Godley.

Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.

Narrator …. David Haig
Lewis Eliot …. Adam Godley
Francis Getliffe .... Andy Taylor
Winslow .... Clive Merrison
Brown .... Philip Franks
Calvert …. Adam Levy
Jago .... David Calder
Nightingale …. Jeremy Child
Chrystal …. Matthew Marsh
Crawford …. Hugh Quarshie
Mrs Jago .... Joanna Monroe
Sir Horace Timberlake .... Ian Hogg

Directors: Jeremy Howe & Sally Avens

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