Midway through the war, a disillusioned Captain Charles Ryder finds himself posted to a remote country retreat. It's Brideshead Castle, scene of the happiest years of his young, impressionable life and the beginnings of his friendship with Sebastian Flyte - whose presence will forever haunt him.

Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel of life, love and a forgotten era.

Ben Miles as Charles Ryder
Jamie Bamber as Sebastian Flyte
Anne-Marie Duff as Julia
Abby Ford as Cordelia
Toby Jones as Brideshead
Tom Smith as Boy Mulcaster
Ann Beach as Nanny Hawkins
Martin Hyder as Jasper
Geoffrey Streatfeild as Anthony Blanche

Andrew Wincott as Hooper
Scott Brooksbank as Collins.
Dramatised in four parts by Jeremy Front.
Music by Neil Brand
Director: Marion Nancarrow
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.