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

George Steiner

Self

Hermione Lee

Self

Brian Cox

Henrik Ibsen

Tim Roth

Franz Kafka

Timothy Spall

Porfiry

Jim Broadbent

Ossipon

David Suchet

Leopold Bloom

John Lynch

Stephen Dedalus

Ben Daniels

Hans Castorp

Ian McDiarmid

Dostoevsky

Edward Fox

Reader

Frances Barber

Winnie Verloc

Ian McNeice

Doctor

Sorcha Cusack

Molly Bloom

Tim McInnerny

Settembrini

Roger Rees

Marcel

Bill Paterson

Titorelli

Roger Lloyd Pack

Rosmer

Patricia Quinn

Bella Cohen

Michael Gough

Reader

Haydn Gwynne

Mme. Chauchat

Patrick Malahide

Underground Man

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Marta Abba

John Castle

Peter Walsh

John Shrapnel

Thomas Mann

Dermot Crowley

Joe Hynes

Kenneth Colley

Chief Inspector Heat

Graham Crowden

Home Secretary

Matthew Marsh

Warder

John Woodvine

Henry IV

Robert Daws

Septimus Warren-Smith

David Ryall

Pastor Kroll

Brian Glover

Adolf Verloc

Eleanor David

Gilberte Swann

Paul Brooke

Dr. Hofrat Behrens

Hywel Bennett

Professor

Suzanne Bertish

Rebekka West

John Challis

ACTOR

Vas Blackwood

ACTOR

T.P. McKenna

Citizen

John Bennett

Chaplain

Derek Deadman

Convict 1

Sabina Franklyn

ACTOR

Sara Sugarman

Nastasya

Peter Blythe

Vladimir

Paul Reynolds

Young Marcel Proust

James Aubrey

Frank Budgen

Iain Cuthbertson

Mynheer Peeperkorn

Dominic Jephcott

Robert St. Loup

Susan Tracy

Mrs. Dalloway

Tony Doyle

Narrator

Mark Wing-Davey

Franz Kafka

Michael Bryant

Advocate

Ann Way

Old Woman

Richard Pasco

Joseph Conrad

Bryan Murray

James Joyce

Oona Kirsch

Sally Seton

Rupert Degas

Reader: 'The Waves'

John Mortimer

Self

John Grillo

Naphta

Jenifer Landor

Lucrezia Warren-Smith

Charlie Drake

Marmeladov

Barrie Rutter

Inspector

Francesca Folan

Zoe Higgins

Melvyn Bragg

Self

Oscar Quitak

Judge

Patricia Mort

May Dedalus

Orla Pederson

Convict 2

Kit Jackson

Clerk

Mair Coleman

Mrs. Marmeladov

Christina Greatrex

Lady Bradshaw

Eva Griffith

Young Clarissa Dalloway

David Barrass

Warder

Gerard Logan

Young Peter Walsh

Julian Mitchell

Self

Naomi Wattis

Giggling Girl

Malcolm Bradbury

Self

Peter Ackroyd

Self

David Doyle

Stevie

Leonardo Sciascia

Self

Deirdra Morris

Nora Joyce

Reginald Stewart

Belcridi

Katy Behean

Sonya

Michael Meyer

Self

Tatyana Colombo

Leni

Michel Butor

Self

Keith Carabine

Self

Lucy Pearce

Giggling Girl

Pippa Vickers

Nurse

Grace Wilkinson

Albertine

V.S. Pritchett

Self

Stephen Spender

Self

Patricia Thorns

Countess

D.M. Thomas

Self

Terence Kilmartin

Self

Nigel Hamilton

Self

Clive Hart

Self

John Jones

Self

Julia Blalock

Mother

Frank Kermode

Self

Zoe Mair

Mlle. St. Loup

Anthony Storr

Self

Craig Raine

Self