A four-part serial, written by David Lodge from his own bestselling novel. and winner of the 1989 Royal Television Society Best Serial Award. Starring
Warren Clarke
Haydn Gwynne
1: January 1986 and Rummidge. that sprawling Midlands city raked by motorways. reluctantly confronts another working week. It is the first meeting, through the 'Shadow Scheme' of Vic Wilcox , dynamic. self-made MD appointed to 'turn round' a struggling engineering firm, with Dr Robyn Penrose , university lecturer in English Literature and expert on the Victorian industrial novel.
Producer Chris Parr
Director Christopher Menaul (R) 0 DRAMA: page 4
0 PICTURE STORY: page 67