Decline and Fall By Evelyn Waugh

A six-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's dazzling first novel.

Adapted by Jeremy Front

1: Theology undergraduate Paul Pennyfeather is thrown out of Oxford and forced to take a post in an eighth-rate public school.

Paul: Alistair McGowan

Grimes: Jim Broadbent

Prendergast: Andrew Sachs

Potts: Daniel Strauss

Peter: Richard Pearce

Dr Fagan: Edward Hardwicke

Postlethwaite: Peter Penry Jones

Sniggs: Sean Arnold

Philbrick: Jonathan Kydd

Flossie: Emma Fielding

Dingy: Siriol Jenkins

Producer Lissa Evans

Wed 22nd Apr 1992

12:25 on BBC Radio 4 FM

2: Llanabba School sports day is arranged in 24 hours flat, and Paul Pennyfeather falls in love....

Paul: Alistair McGowan

Peter: Richard Pearce

Grimes: Jim Broadbent

Prendergast: Andrew Sachs

Fagan: Edward Hardwicke

Philbrick: Jonathan Kydd

Lady Circumference: Margaret Courtenay

Margot: Joanna David

Wed 29th Apr 1992

12:25 on BBC Radio 4 FM

3: In which Paul Pennyfeather exchanges the primitive horrors of Llanabba school for the futuristic nightmare of King's Thursday

Paul: Alistair McGowan

Grimes: Jim Broadbent

Prendergast: Andrew Sachs

Dr Fagan: Edward Hardwicke

Margot: Joanna David

Peter: Richard Pearce

Otto: Daniel Strauss

Wed 6th May 1992

12:25 on BBC Radio 4 FM

4: Paul Pennyfeather becomes engaged to a member of high society and Grimes turns up again.

Paul Pennyfeather: Alistair McGowan

Margot: Joanna David

Grimes: Jim Broadbent

Maltravers: John Church

Peter: Richard Pearce

Potts: Daniel Strauss

Jane: Theresa Streatfeild

Wed 13th May 1992

12:25 on BBC Radio 4 FM

5: Paul Pennyfeather travels from Marseilles to gaol, via the Ritz.

Paul Pennyfeather: Alistair McGowan

Margot: Joanna David

Peter: Richard Pearce

Potts: Daniel Strauss

Philbrick: Jonathan Kydd

Panther: Peter Gunn

Prendergast: Andrew Sachs

Prison Doctor: John Church

Wed 20th May 1992

12:25 on BBC Radio 4 FM

6: The wheel turns full circle and Paul Pennyfeather starts all over again.

Paul Pennyfeather: Austair McGowan

Grimes: Jim Broadbent

Prendergasl: Andrew Sachs

Lucas Dockery: James Grout

Philbrick: Jonathan Kydd

Lunatic: Kenneth Colley

Margot: Joanna David

Peter: Richard Pearce

Panther: Peter Gunn

Otto: Daniel Strauss

Wed 27th May 1992

12:25 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh's first, funniest novel immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénu abroad in the decadent confusion of 1920s high society.
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