This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.
Anthony Burgess
Self
2 episodes
Eileen Atkins
Reader
Douglas Hodge
Stage Manger / Son / Ordolfo
Hermione Lee
George Steiner
John Castle
Peter Walsh
1 episode
Robert Daws
Septimus Warren-Smith
Rupert Degas
Reader: 'The Waves'
Katy Behean
Sonya
Vas Blackwood
(voice)