Marcel Proust's In Search Of Lost Time (episodes 1 And 2)

Timberlake Wertenbaker's adaptation from the French of Marcel Proust's allegorical reflection on time, memory, art and love.

It begins with the vivid memory of a young boy's childhood summers spent in the French countryside of Combray and the long nights waiting for his mother to come and kiss him goodnight. The young Marcel takes beautiful walks with his parents and has his first sighting of the young Gilberte Swann, daughter of family friend and well-connected Parisian Dandy, Charles Swann and his wife, the courtesan and seductress Odette de Crecy.

Cast:

MARCEL (narrator) - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Derek Jacobi

FATHER - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Oliver Cotton

FRANCOISE - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Susan Brown

MOTHER - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Sylvestra le Touzel

GRANDMOTHER - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Joanna David

TANTE LEONIE/MARQUISE DE SAINTE EUVERTE. - ¦ - ¦Pamela Miles

GILBERTE (girl) - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Mary Glen

ODETTE ..............Bessie Carter

SWANN - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ Paterson Joseph

MADEMOISELLE VINTEUIL/PROSTITUTE - Charlotte Blandford

THE DUCHESS DE GUERMANTES (Oriane) - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ Fenella Woolgar

MADAME DE VERDURIN - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Frances Barber

PIANIST - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Daniel Whitlam

DOCTOR COTTARD - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Lloyd Hutchinson

MARCEL(boy) - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Isaac Watts

MONSIEUR VERDURIN - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Jeff Rawle

FEMALE FRIEND/ANOTHER PROSTITUTE - ¦ - ¦ - ¦.Phoebe Marshall

ELSTIR BICHE - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ Daniel Flynn

MADAME DE GALLARDON - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Christine Kavanagh

BRICHOT - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Hugh Ross

FORCHEVILLE - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Nicholas Gleaves

REMI - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Nicholas Armfield

SANIETTE - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Roger Watkins

SERVANT - ¦ - ¦ - ¦Finlay Paul

Translated and adapted from the French by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Produced and directed by Celia de Wolff

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling

Recording and Sound Design: David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown

Executive Producer: Peter Hoare

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

Marcel Proust's allegorical contemplation on time, memory, art and love.