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/ BBC2 / 13 x 55m / 1984
Dramatised by: Julian Snow; Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Drama series. C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" is a massive 11-volume story about the public life and private loves and friendships of an English lawyer and civil servant from World War I to the late 1960's. The novels cover 40 years in the life of Lewis Eliot, beginning at age 19 when, as a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks, he began his climb to the top of the British establishment. As Eliot makes his way to the summit, he's continually fascinated by people's attempts to manipulate events and one another. Disillusioned with his early career as a barrister, he moves to academe and first encounters the savagery among "civilized" academicians. Promoted to Whitehall in World War II, he becomes closely involved with England's attempt to beat the U.S. to develop the atom bomb. As a high-ranking civil servant after the war, he's again embroiled in the "uses and abuses of power".
cast
SHAUHGHAN SEYMOUR as Lewis Elliot / ANTHONY HOPKINS as Roger Quaife / SUSAN FLEETWOOD as Lady Caroline Quaife / CHERIE LUNGHI as Margaret Eliot / EDWARD HARDWICKE as Sir Hector Rose / Nigel Havers as Roy Calvert / Elizabeth Spriggs / Tony Britton / Joan Greenwood / Peter Sallis / John Carson / Frederick Treves / Andrew Cruikshank / Kathryn Pogson / Clifford Rose / Martyn Jacobs / Carmen du Sautoy / Terence Alexander / Neil Stacy / Tom Wilkinson / Alan MacNaughtan / Cyril Luckham / Jeffry Wickham / John Grillo / James Simmons / Michael Siberry / Tim Wylton / James d Collins / Peggy A Wood / Michael Troughton
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