Adaptations
The cycle was adapted by Frederick Bradnumas as a Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4. In order to fit the material in it was broadcast as four separate serials each based on a set of three books, the first three serials had six episodes, the last eight. The series were broadcast between 1979 and 1982.
The cycle was adapted again as a six-part Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4 from 6 April to 11 May 2008, directed by John Taylor. The cast was:
- Narrator – Corin Redgrave
- Kenneth Widmerpool – Anthony Hoskyns / Mark Heap
- Nick Jenkins – Tom McHugh / Alex Jennings
- Charles Stringham – David Oakes / Timothy Watson
- Peter Templer – Jolyon Coy / Ronan Vibert
- Orn – Dag Soerlie
- Lindquist – Christian Rubeck
- Sillery – Paul Brooke
- JG Quiggin – Julian Kerridge
- Madame Leroy/Mrs Andriadis – Carolyn Pickles
- Jean Templer/Gypsy Jones – Emma Powell
- Suzette/Barbara – Abigail Hollick
- Erridge – Jonathan Keeble
- Mona – Abigail Cruttenden
- Molly – Heather Tracy
- Isobel – Zoe Waites
The cycle was adapted as an four-part TV-series by Anthony Powell and Hugh Whitemore for Channel 4 in 1997, directed by Christopher Morahan and Alvin Rakoff. The cast was:
- Nicholas Jenkins – James Purefoy
- Kenneth Widmerpool – Simon Russell Beale
- Charles Stringham – Paul Rhys
- JG Quiggin – Adrian Scarborough
- Peter Templer – Jonathan Cake
- Jean Templer – Claire Skinner
- Mark Members – Grant Thatcher
- Pamela Flitton – Miranda Richardson
- Sir Magnus Donners – Richard Pasco
- Bob Duport – Nicholas Jones
- Uncle Giles (Capt. Giles Jenkins) – Edward Fox
- Mona – Annabel Mullion
- Uncle Alfred (the Hon. Alfred Tolland) – Robin Bailey
- Mrs. Myra Erdleigh – Gillian Barge
- Hugh Moreland – James Fleet
- Lady Molly Jeavons – Sarah Badel
- Miss Tuffy Weedon – Carmen du Sautoy
- Erridge (Lord Warminster) – Osmund Bullock
- Lady Susan Tolland – Geraldine Alexander
- Prof. Sillery – Alan Bennett
- Betty – Barbara Durkin
- Lady Isobel Tolland – Emma Fielding
- Le Bas – Oliver Ford Davies
- Rosie Manasch – Carmen Gómez
- Lady Priscilla Tolland – Caroline Harker
- Sunny Farebrother – Andrew Havill
- Fiona Cutts – Laura Heath
- Matilda – Anastasia Hille
- Odo Stevens – Nigel Lindsay
- Judy – Rachel Lumberg
- Chuck – Danny Midwinter
- Colonel Flores – Tony Osoba
- Smith – Bryan Pringle
- David Pennistone – Nicholas Rowe
- Audrey Maclintick – Zoë Wanamaker
- Ted Jeavons – Michael Williams
- Maclintick – Paul Brooke
- St. John Clarke – Sir John Gielgud
- Russell Gwinnett – James Callis
- Chief Clerk - Martin Wimbush
- Canon Fenneau – Colin Baker
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