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The Light and the Dark

As the Second World War erupts, Lewis Eliot heads to Whitehall and his love life takes an unexpected turn. Stars Adam Godley.

As the Second World War erupts, Lewis Eliot heads to Whitehall and his love life takes an unexpected turn.

CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.

Stars Adam Godley and David Haig.

Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.

Narrator …. David Haig
Lewis Eliot …. Adam Godley
Hector Rose ...Rupert Vansittart
Roy Calvert .... Adam Levy
Houston Eggar …. Peter Marinker
Willy Romantovski .... Kenneth Collard
Gilbert Cooke .... Anthony Calf
Margaret Davidson .... Juliet Aubrey
Rosalind …. Anne-Marie Duff
Betty Vane .... Carla Simpson

Director: Jeremy Howe & Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 6 Nov 202103:00

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