The Lesson of the Master
Back in Britain with the manuscript of Rachel's book, Adam decides to ask his and Rachel's old college mentor to give his opinion on it. The result is unsettling.
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. Decades have passed, and we now catch up with Adam and his friends (and enemies) in the days of John Major's government.
Back in Britain with the manuscript of Rachel's book, Adam decides to ask his and Rachel's old college mentor to give his opinion on it. The result is unsettling. He also gets an offer he'd love to be able to refuse, and spends a long car journey with a couple of his old sparring partners.
Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti
Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann
Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery
Mike Clode ...... Mark Wing-Davey
Alan Parks ...... Alistair McGowan
Gavin Pope ...... Malcolm Sinclair
Lars Waring ...... Ian Kelly
Patricia Reece ...... Annabel Leventon
Sheridan Reece ...... Julian Glover
Produced by Jo Wheeler
Directed by Pete Atkin
An Above the Title production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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- Fri 5 Mar 2010 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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