TV Portrayal
Following a successful BBC radio dramatisation of A Dance to the Music of Time some years earlier, in 1997 Channel 4 filmed an adaptation for TV. In it Widmerpool was played throughout by the Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale, for which he won the Best Actor category at the British Academy Film & Television Awards in 1998. His portrayal met with the approval of both academic critics and Powell enthusiasts, resulting in his being invited to become President of the Anthony Powell Society, an office he still holds.
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