Decline and Fall

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Kieran Hodgson

Geoffrey Whitehead

John Sessions

James Fleet

Ben Crowe

Emilia Fox

Alex Lawther

Tilly Vosburgh

Felicity Montagu

Richard Linnell

Mark Edel-Hunt

Jude Akuwudike

Stephen Critchlow

Sam Valentine

Sam Dale

David Acton

Ian Conningham

Marion Nancarrow

Tracey Neale

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Jeremy Front

Drama on 4: Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall: Episode 1: 1. The Bollinger Club

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Episode 1: 1. The Bollinger Club

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

1. The Bollinger Club

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Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic 1920s romp. A fast paced roller-coaster with a satirical bite.

A quiet, earnest Oxford student knows nothing of 1920s high-life until he encounters the Bollinger Club. Stars Kieran Hodgson.

Paul Pennyfeather, a quiet, earnest, scholarly young student at Oxford knows nothing of 1920's high-life until one night he encounters The Bollinger Club ...

Evelyn's Waugh's fast paced roller-coaster is set in the early jazz age, peopled by larger than life characters and a few grotesques 
 
A real gem in the canon of British comic fiction.

Starring Kieran Hodgson, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Sessions

Dramatised by Jeremy Front.

Paul Pennyfeather ..... Kieran Hodgson
Dr Fagan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Grimes ..... John Sessions
Prendergast ..... James Fleet
Philbrick ..... Ben Crowe
Margot Beste-Chetwynde ..... Emilia Fox
Peter Beste-Chetwynde ..... Alex Lawther
Flossie ..... Tilly Vosburgh
Lady Circumference/Dingy ..... Felicity Montagu
Tangent ..... Richard Linnell
Clutterbuck ..... Mark Edel-Hunt
Cholmondley ..... Jude Akuwudike
Mr Davies/Paul's Guardian ..... Stephen Critchlow
Trumpington ..... Sam Valentine
Sniggs ..... Sam Dale
Postlethwaite ..... David Acton
Levy ..... Ian Conningham

Jeremy Front won the Best Dramatisation in the BBC 2014 Drama Audio Awards for Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour. 

Producer: Marion Nancarrow 
Director:  Tracey Neale 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2015.

Drama on 4: Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

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Jeremy Front dramatises Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic 1920s romp.

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