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An old friend invites Adam on to his radio programme to talk about his new book.

An old friend invites Adam on to his radio programme to talk about his new book - and incidentally to make an uncharacteristic revelation.

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. 

An old friend invites Adam on to his radio programme to talk about his new book - and incidentally to make an uncharacteristic revelation. Having decided to walk home, Adam has serious cause to regret the decision. A visit from the police is anything but reassuring.

Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti
Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann
Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery
Alan Parks ...... Alistair McGowan
Derek Morris ...... Adrian Lukis
Inspector Siddons ...... Ben Onwukwe
Josiah Idun ...... Kobna Holdbrook Smith
Leila ...... Georgina Rich

Produced by Jo Wheeler

Directed by Pete Atkin

An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4.

Drama on 4: Final Demands

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Series by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters from his novel The Glittering Prizes

Series of plays by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters from his novel The Glittering Prizes. Decades have passed, and we now catch up with Adam Morris and his friends (and enemies) in the 1990s

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