
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
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.
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Top Cast

Anthony Burgess
Self · 2 eps

Eileen Atkins
Reader / Virginia Woolf · 2 eps

Douglas Hodge
Raskolnikov / Stage Manger / Son / Ordolfo · 2 eps
Hermione Lee
Self · 2 eps

George Steiner
Self · 2 eps

John Castle
Peter Walsh · 1 ep

Robert Daws
Septimus Warren-Smith · 1 ep

Rupert Degas
Reader: 'The Waves' · 1 ep

Katy Behean
Sonya · 1 ep

Vas Blackwood
(voice) · 1 ep

John Challis
(voice) · 1 ep
Mair Coleman
Mrs. Marmeladov · 1 ep

Derek Deadman
Convict 1 · 1 ep

Charlie Drake
Marmeladov · 1 ep

Sabina Franklyn
(voice) · 1 ep
John Jones
Self · 1 ep

Patrick Malahide
Underground Man · 1 ep

Ian McDiarmid
Dostoevsky · 1 ep
Orla Pederson
Convict 2 · 1 ep

Timothy Spall
Porfiry · 1 ep
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