{"product_id":"book-gayb","title":"Strangers and Brothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe full-cast BBC Radio adaptation of C. P. Snow's epic series about the English establishment across the twentieth century \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eA vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A very considerable achievement... It brings into the novel themes and locales never seen before (except perhaps in Trollope)' Anthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provincial lower class background to begin his decades-long rise to power. As the years pass, and Lewis progresses to successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement, he faces in his own life and the lives of those around him collapsing marriages, terrible illness, the politics of academia, Nazism, nuclear weapons, the price of power, and the ever-present realities of war. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e praised the book series, saying, 'through [them] as in no other work in our time we have explored the inner life of the new classless class that is the 20th century Establishment'. John Betjeman claimed the books were 'as full of life as life itself'. The \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e series captures perfectly the ever-present battle between political and personal integrity Lewis must face, as well as all the upheaval and social change of the two world wars and the decades that followed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis adaptation stars \u003cb\u003eDavid Haig\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eAdam Godley\u003c\/b\u003e as Lewis Eliot, \u003cb\u003eBill Wallis\u003c\/b\u003e as George Passant, \u003cb\u003eJuliet Aubrey\u003c\/b\u003e as Margaret Davidson, \u003cb\u003eStephen Moore\u003c\/b\u003e as Herbert Getliffe, and \u003cb\u003eDanny Webb\u003c\/b\u003e as Percy Hall, with a full cast including \u003cb\u003eJeremy Swift\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDavid Tennant\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAnne-Marie Duff\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eIain Glen\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eClaire Skinner\u003c\/b\u003e and\u003cb\u003e Tim McInnerny\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDirected by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens\u003cbr\u003eDramatised by Jonathan Holloway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4, January-June 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull cast:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrator\/Lewis Eliot - David Haig\u003cbr\u003eYoung Lewis Eliot - Adam Godley\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Passant - Bill Wallis\u003cbr\u003eMarion - Laura Doddington\u003cbr\u003eSheila Knight - Anastasia Hille\u003cbr\u003eHerbert Getliffe - Stephen Moore\u003cbr\u003ePercy Hall - Danny Webb\u003cbr\u003eCharles March - Jamie Glover\u003cbr\u003eLeonard March - John Standing\u003cbr\u003eKatherine March - Carla Simpson\u003cbr\u003eAnn Simon - Emma Woolliams\u003cbr\u003eMrs Getliffe - Suzanna Hamilton\u003cbr\u003eRevd Knight - Brett Usher\u003cbr\u003eYoung Francis Getliffe - Andy Taylor\u003cbr\u003eWinslow - Clive Merrison\u003cbr\u003eYoung Brown - Philip Franks\u003cbr\u003eRoy Calvert - Adam Levy\u003cbr\u003eYoung Jago - David Calder\u003cbr\u003eNightingale - Jeremy Child\u003cbr\u003eChrystal - Matthew Marsh\u003cbr\u003eCrawford - Hugh Quarshie\u003cbr\u003eMrs Jago - Joanna Monroe\u003cbr\u003eSir Horace Timberlake - Ian Hogg\u003cbr\u003eYoung Hector Rose - Rupert Vansittart\u003cbr\u003eHouston Eggar - Peter Marinker\u003cbr\u003eWilly Romantovski - Kenneth Collard\u003cbr\u003eGilbert Cooke - Anthony Calf\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Davidson\/Margaret Eliot - Juliet Aubrey\u003cbr\u003eRosalind - Anne-Marie Duff\u003cbr\u003eBetty Vane - Carla Simpson\u003cbr\u003eMartin Eliot - Tim McInnerny\u003cbr\u003eWalter Luke - Jeremy Swift\u003cbr\u003eIrene - Claire Skinner\u003cbr\u003eDavid Rubin - Rolf Saxon\u003cbr\u003eSawbridge - Adrian Scarborough\u003cbr\u003eEdgar - Andrew Wincott\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Smith - Sean Baker\u003cbr\u003eSir Hector Rose - John Carlisle\u003cbr\u003eSir Thomas Beville - Robert Laing\u003cbr\u003eAustin Davidson - David Collings\u003cbr\u003eJago - Sean Barrett\u003cbr\u003eDawson Hill - Peter Blythe\u003cbr\u003eSkeffington - David Acton\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Getliffe - Geoffrey Whitehead\u003cbr\u003eBrown - Jonathan Coy\u003cbr\u003eDonald Howard - David Tennant\u003cbr\u003eRoger Quaife - Iain Glen\u003cbr\u003eLord Collingwood - Ronald Pickup\u003cbr\u003eCaro Quaife - Julia Watson\u003cbr\u003eLord Gilbey - John Woodvine\u003cbr\u003eDiana Skidmore - Avril Clark\u003cbr\u003ePhillips - Richard Firth\u003cbr\u003eOsbaldiston - David Leonard\u003cbr\u003eBrodzinski - Christopher Rozycki\u003cbr\u003eEllen Smith - Emma Bown\u003cbr\u003eMonteith - Paul Venables\u003cbr\u003eTrafford - Stephen Critchlow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49361938710832,"sku":"BDgayb","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/253224-gayb-Square.jpg?v=1734504630","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gayb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}