The Distinguished Thing
It's now 50 years since Adam and his friends and enemies set out on their winding, interlocking paths. But it's Adam's brother Derek who holds the key to how the story ends.
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.
Adam and the friends and enemies who started out together as Cambridge undergraduates find that it's now 50 years since they set out on their winding, interlocking paths. But it's Adam's brother Derek who holds the key to how the story ends.
Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti
Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann
Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery
Alan Parks ...... Alistair McGowan
Derek Morris ...... Adrian Lukis
Mike Clode ...... Mark Wing-Davey
Lars Waring ...... Ian Kelly
Terry Slater ...... Stephen Mangan
Tom Morris ...... Rupert Degas
Bernice ...... Georgina Rich
Anna Cunningham ...... Emily Richard
Produced by Jo Wheeler
Directed by Pete Atkin
An Above the Title production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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- Fri 19 Mar 2010 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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