A Dance to the Music of Time | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | |
Based on | A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell |
Screenplay by | Hugh Whitemore |
Directed by | |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Hugh Whitemore |
Producer | Alvin Rakoff |
Running time | 416 minutes |
Production company | Daisybeck |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 9 October 30 October 1997 | –
A Dance to the Music of Time is a British four-part television drama series based on the book series of the same name by Anthony Powell. The series was also written by Anthony Powell with Hugh Whitemore as co-writer. The series was produced by Table Top Productions and directed by Christopher Morahan and Alvin Rakoff. It was first broadcast on Channel 4[1] on 9 October 1997 over four consecutive weeks.
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Several young men go through public school and university together, and maintain contact as they make their way in the world through the 1920s, the upheavals of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the post-war years of change in society. Many of the people they meet fall by the wayside, and their own fates are varied. The series attempts to chart the change in upper-middle-class society through their stories, and the realities of how the English social system worked.
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No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.K. viewers (millions) [3] |
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1 | "The Twenties" | Christopher Morahan | Anthony Powell and Hugh Whitemore | 9 October 1997 | N/A |
2 | "The Thirties" | Christopher Morahan | Anthony Powell and Hugh Whitemore | 16 October 1997 | N/A |
3 | "The War" | Alvin Rakoff | Anthony Powell and Hugh Whitemore | 23 October 1997 | N/A |
4 | "Post War" | Christopher Morahan | Anthony Powell and Hugh Whitemore | 30 October 1997 | N/A |
The Thomas Sutcliffe of The Independent described the first episode in the series as "It's questionable whether any literary work can survive a compression as intense as that undergone by A Dance to the Music of Time" and went on to mention "For obvious reasons barely even a homeopathic trace of Powell's patrician ruminations remain - what has survived are the incidents upon which he strung his grand reflections."[4]
Year | Award | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | British Academy Television Awards | Best Actor | Simon Russell Beale | Won | |
Best Actress | Miranda Richardson | Nominated | |||
Royal Television Society Awards | Actor: Male | Simon Russell Beale | Won | [5] | |
Actor: Female | Miranda Richardson | Nominated |