strangers and brothers

July 14-17 movie: Strangers and Brothers. This was a BBC miniseries based on a series of novels by C.P. Snow. My dad and I watched the first 5 episodes while I was in Delaware. It follows the career of Lewis Elliot (Shaughan Seymour), an ambitious young lawyer, in the years before WWII. Of the episodes we saw, the best was "The Master," which showed the scheming and infighting to elect a new Master at the Cambridge college where Elliot is a fellow. There were many costars, my favorites being Nigel Havers as another fellow at the college, and Sheila Ruskin as Elliot's troubled wife. I read that Anthony Hopkins also appeared in some of the later episodes we didn't get to.