Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988) | Full Cast

David Thomas

DIRECTOR

Nigel Wattis

DIRECTOR

Kim Evans

DIRECTOR

David Hinton

DIRECTOR

Eileen Atkins

Reader

Douglas Hodge

Ordolfo

Anthony Burgess

Self

Hermione Lee

Self

George Steiner

Self

Tim Roth

Franz Kafka

Brian Cox

Henrik Ibsen

Bill Paterson

Titorelli

Jim Broadbent

Ossipon

Timothy Spall

Porfiry

David Suchet

Leopold Bloom

Ben Daniels

Hans Castorp

Ian McDiarmid

Dostoevsky

Ian McNeice

Doctor

Roger Rees

Marcel

Tim McInnerny

Settembrini

John Lynch

Stephen Dedalus

Frances Barber

Winnie Verloc

Edward Fox

Reader

Haydn Gwynne

Mme. Chauchat

Patricia Quinn

Bella Cohen

Dermot Crowley

Joe Hynes

Michael Gough

Reader

Sorcha Cusack

Molly Bloom

Roger Lloyd Pack

Rosmer

Patrick Malahide

Underground Man

John Shrapnel

Thomas Mann

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Marta Abba

Kenneth Colley

Chief Inspector Heat

Eleanor David

Gilberte Swann

John Castle

Peter Walsh

Brian Glover

Adolf Verloc

John Woodvine

Henry IV

Matthew Marsh

Warder

Robert Daws

Septimus Warren-Smith

Graham Crowden

Home Secretary

Hywel Bennett

Professor

David Ryall

Pastor Kroll

Peter Blythe

Vladimir

Paul Brooke

Dr. Hofrat Behrens

John Bennett

Chaplain

Vas Blackwood

ACTOR

John Challis

ACTOR

Suzanne Bertish

Rebekka West

Sara Sugarman

Nastasya

T.P. McKenna

Citizen

Susan Tracy

Mrs. Dalloway

Sabina Franklyn

ACTOR

Michael Bryant

Advocate

Tony Doyle

Narrator

Paul Reynolds

Young Marcel Proust

Derek Deadman

Convict 1

James Aubrey

Frank Budgen

Dominic Jephcott

Robert St. Loup

Mark Wing-Davey

Franz Kafka

Ann Way

Old Woman

Iain Cuthbertson

Mynheer Peeperkorn

Richard Pasco

Joseph Conrad

Jenifer Landor

Lucrezia Warren-Smith

Rupert Degas

Reader: 'The Waves'

Oona Kirsch

Sally Seton

Barrie Rutter

Inspector

John Grillo

Naphta

Francesca Folan

Zoe Higgins

Charlie Drake

Marmeladov

Bryan Murray

James Joyce

John Mortimer

Self

Melvyn Bragg

Self

Oscar Quitak

Judge

Patricia Mort

May Dedalus

Christina Greatrex

Lady Bradshaw

David Barrass

Warder

Kit Jackson

Clerk

Julian Mitchell

Self

Eva Griffith

Young Clarissa Dalloway

Orla Pederson

Convict 2

David Doyle

Stevie

Gerard Logan

Young Peter Walsh

Peter Ackroyd

Self

Leonardo Sciascia

Self

Malcolm Bradbury

Self

Naomi Wattis

Giggling Girl

Deirdra Morris

Nora Joyce

Nigel Hamilton

Self

Reginald Stewart

Belcridi

Tatyana Colombo

Leni

V.S. Pritchett

Self

Pippa Vickers

Nurse

Keith Carabine

Self

D.M. Thomas

Self

Anthony Storr

Self

Grace Wilkinson

Albertine

Clive Hart

Self

Michel Butor

Self

Julia Blalock

Mother

Craig Raine

Self

John Jones

Self

Frank Kermode

Self

Michael Meyer

Self

Stephen Spender

Self

Katy Behean

Sonya

Patricia Thorns

Countess

Terence Kilmartin

Self

Mair Coleman

Mrs. Marmeladov

Lucy Pearce

Giggling Girl

Zoe Mair

Mlle. St. Loup