Program Title
Strangers and Brothers

Based On
Novels by C.P. Snow

Adapted By
Julian Bond

Number of Episodes:
7

Description
C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" is a massive 11-volume story about the public life and private loves and friendships of an English lawyer and civil servant from World War I to the late 1960's. The novels cover 40 years in the life of Lewis Eliot, beginning at age 19 when, as a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks, he began his climb to the top of the British establishment. As Eliot makes his way to the summit, he's continually fascinated by people's attempts to manipulate events and one another. Disillusioned with his early career as a barrister, he moves to academe and first encounters the savagery among "civilized" academicians. Promoted to Whitehall in World War II, he becomes closely involved with England's attempt to beat the U.S. to develop the atom bomb. As a high-ranking civil servant after the war, he's again embroiled in the "uses and abuses of power".


Original broadcast date
1985-05-05

Cast	Characters
Shaughan Seymour
Sheila Ruskin
Nigel Havers	Roy Calvert
Cherie Lunghi	Margaret Eliot
Elizabeth Spriggs
Tony Britton
Joan Greenwood
Peter Sallis
John Carson
Frederick Treves
Andrew Cruikshank
Kathryn Pogson
Clifford Rose
Martyn Jacobs
Carmen d Sautoy
Terence Alexander
Stephen d Riddle
Neil Stacy
Tom Wilkinson
Alan MacNaughtan
Cyril Luckham
Jeffry Wickham
John Grillo
James Simmons
Michael Siberry
Tim Wylton
James d Collins
Peggy A Wood
Michael Troughton
Geoffrey A Toone.

Credits

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Director: Jeremy Summers, Ronald Wilson





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