Strangers and Brothers

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CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers: Time of Hope

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Time of Hope

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Eager Lewis Eliot starts his rise to power from 1920s Leicester.

Eager Lewis Eliot starts his rise to power from 1920s Leicester. CP Snow's English Establishment epic. Stars Adam Godley.

It’s the 1920s. By qualifying to study at the Bar, Lewis Eliot starts his rise to power by escaping from the drudgery of a Leicester council clerk's office.

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

Stars Adam Godley and Bill Wallis.  

Dramatised in ten parts 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

Directors: Jeremy Howe & Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.

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