A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
Rated
15
Year
1997
Country
GB
Language
English
First aired
9 October 1997
TMDB
5.9 (7)
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Simon Russell Beale
Widmerpool
James Purefoy
Nicholas Jenkins
James Fleet
Moreland
Jonathan Cake
Peter Templer
Paul Rhys
Charles Stringham
Claire Skinner
Jean
Miranda Richardson
Pamela Flitton
Adrian Scarborough
JG Quiggin
Edward Fox
Uncle Giles
John Standing
Nicholas Jenkins (older)
G
Gillian Barge
Mrs Erdleigh
Annabel Mullion
Mona
Oliver Ford Davies
Le Bas
Robin Bailey
Uncle Alfred
Nicholas Jones
Bob Duport
Nigel Lindsay
Odo Stevens
Nicholas Rowe
David Pennistone
Michael Williams
Ted Jeavons
Sarah Badel
Lady Molly
Zoë Wanamaker
Audrey Maclintick
Harriet Walter
Mildred
Caroline Harker
Priscilla
Eileen Atkins
Brightman
James Callis
Gwinnett
Paul Brooke
Maclintick
James D'Arcy
Nicholas Jenkins (student)
Alan Bennett
Sillery
Joanna David
Isobel (older)
Emma Fielding
Isobel
John Gielgud
St. John Clarke
Frank Middlemass
Edgar Deacon
Chris Lang
Chips Lovell
Richard Pasco
Sir Magnus Donners
Patrick Godfrey
General Conyers
Tony Osoba
Colonel Flores
Nicola Walker
Gypsy Jones
Emily Mortimer
Polly Duport
Robert Pugh
Biggs
Lucy Fleming
Jean (older)
Julian Wadham
General Liddament
Jamie Glover
Robert Tolland
Andrew Havill
Sunny Farebrother
G
Grant Thatcher
Mark Members
Colin Baker
Canon Fenneau
Mark Dexter
Tompsitt
Richard Leaf
Barnabas Henderson
Carmen du Sautoy
Miss Weedon
Amanda Walker
Mrs. Conyers
K
Kate Cavanagh
Billson
Anastasia Hille
Matilda
James Villiers
Buster Foxe
D
Danny Worters
Nicholas Jenkins (boy)
Geraldine Alexander
Susan
Osmund Bullock
Erridge
Sarah Crowden
Miss Orchard
B
Barbara Durkin
Betty
N
Nicola King
Mrs Jenkins
David Yelland
Mr Jenkins
David MacCreedy
Bracey
Bryan Pringle
Smith
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