The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

Overview

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.

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

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  Anthony Burgess

  Self

  2 eps

• 

  Eileen Atkins

  Reader / Virginia Woolf

  2 eps

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  Douglas Hodge

  Raskolnikov / Stage Manger / Son / Ordolfo

  2 eps

• Hermione Lee

  Self

  2 eps

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