The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers is a 1988 documentary series. It stars Anthony Burgess, Eileen Atkins and Douglas Hodge.
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.
Cast
- Anthony Burgess as Self
- Eileen Atkins as Reader
- Douglas Hodge as Stage Manger / Son / Ordolfo
- Hermione Lee as Self
- George Steiner as Self
- John Castle as Peter Walsh
- Robert Daws as Septimus Warren-Smith
- Rupert Degas as Reader: 'The Waves'
- Katy Behean as Sonya
- Vas Blackwood as (voice)
- John Challis as (voice)
- Mair Coleman as Mrs. Marmeladov