For the painting itself, see A Dance to the Music of Time (painting)

A Dance to the Music of Time (painting)

A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin. It was produced between 1634 and 1636 as a commission for Giulio Rospigliosi , who probably dictated its detailed iconography. It is best known for giving its name to the novel cycle of the same name...

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A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell CH, CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975....

, inspired by the painting of the same name

A Dance to the Music of Time (painting)

A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin. It was produced between 1634 and 1636 as a commission for Giulio Rospigliosi , who probably dictated its detailed iconography. It is best known for giving its name to the novel cycle of the same name...

 by Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...

. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid 20th century.

The sequence is narrated by Nick Jenkins in the form of his reminiscences. At the beginning of the first volume, Nick falls into a reverie while watching snow descending on a coal brazier. This reminds him of "the ancient world – legionaries (...) mountain altars (...) centaurs (....)". These classical projections introduce the account of his schooldays which opens A Question of Upbringing

A Question of Upbringing

A Question of Upbringing is the opening novel in Anthony Powell's masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume cycle spanning much of the 20th century....

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Over the course of the following volumes, he recalls the people he met over the previous half a century. Little is told of Jenkins's personal life beyond his encounters with the great and the bad, with events, such as his wife's miscarriage, only being related in conversation with the principal characters.

Time

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

 magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The editors of Modern Library

Modern Library

The Modern Library is a publishing company. Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, it was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer...

 ranked the work as 43rd greatest English-language novel of the twentieth century.

Inspiration

Jenkins reflects on the Poussin painting in the first two pages of A Question of Upbringing:

These classical projections, and something from the fire, suddenly suggested Poussin's scene in which the Seasons, hand in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard plays. The image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human beings, facing outward like the Seasons, moving hand in hand in intricate measure, stepping slowly, methodically sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take recognisable shape: or breaking into seemingly meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to reappear again, once more giving pattern to the spectacle: unable to control the melody, unable, perhaps, to control the steps of the dance.

Poussin's painting is housed at the Wallace Collection

Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.It was established in...

 in London.

Analysis

• Powell's official biographer, Hilary Spurling
  Hilary Spurling
  Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer. She won the Whitbread Prize for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006...
  
  , has published Invitation to the Dance – a Handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. This annotates, in dictionary form, the characters, events, art, music, and other references. She has also calculated the timeline employed by the author: this is utilised in the synopses linked from the novels below.
• The various aspects of the novel-sequence are also analysed in "An Index to 'A Dance to the Music of Time'" by B.J.Moule. See External Links below.

The novels

(dates are first UK publication dates)

• A Question of Upbringing
  A Question of Upbringing
  A Question of Upbringing is the opening novel in Anthony Powell's masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume cycle spanning much of the 20th century....
  
  – (1951)
• A Buyer's Market
  A Buyer's Market
  A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series, A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1952, it continues the story of narrator Nick Jenkins with his introduction into society after boarding school and university....
  
  – (1952)
• The Acceptance World
  The Acceptance World
  The Acceptance World is the third book of Anthony Powell's twelve novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Nick Jenkins continues the narration of his life and encounters with many friends and acquaintances in London between 1931 and 33....
  
  – (1955)
• At Lady Molly's
  At Lady Molly's
  At Lady Molly's is the fourth volume in Anthony Powell's twelve novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. A first person narrative, it is written in precise yet conversational prose...
  
  – (1957)
• Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
  Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
  Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is a novel by Anthony Powell . It forms the fifth volume of his masterpiece, the twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, and was originally published in 1960...
  
  – (1960)
• The Kindly Ones – (1962)
• The Valley of Bones
  The Valley of Bones
  The Valley of Bones is the seventh novel in the sequence of twelve comprising Anthony Powell's masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time...
  
  – (1964)
• The Soldier's Art
  The Soldier's Art
  The Soldier's Art is the eighth novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume masterpiece A Dance to the Music of Time, and the second in the war trilogy. It was published in 1966, and touches on themes of separation and unanticipated loss....
  
  – (1966)
• The Military Philosophers
  The Military Philosophers
  The Military Philosophers is the ninth of Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. First published in 1968, it covers the latter part of Nicholas Jenkins' service in World War II...
  
  – (1968)
• Books Do Furnish a Room
  Books Do Furnish a Room (novel)
  Books Do Furnish a Room is a novel by Anthony Powell, the tenth in the sequence of twelve comprising his masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time. It was first published in 1971 and, like the other volumes, remains in print....
  
  – (1971)
• Temporary Kings
  Temporary Kings
  Temporary Kings is a novel by Anthony Powell, the penultimate in his twelve-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time. It was published in 1973 and remains in print as does the rest of the sequence....
  
  – (1973)
• Hearing Secret Harmonies
  Hearing Secret Harmonies
  Hearing Secret Harmonies is the final novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time. It was published in 1975 twenty-four years since the first book, A Question of Upbringing appeared in 1951....
  
  – (1975)

Principal characters

Character	Details	Historical inspirations
Nick Jenkins	Narrator	A cypher, everyman Everyman In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual, with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily, and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances... ; Powell himself
Kenneth Widmerpool Kenneth Widmerpool Kenneth Widmerpool is a fictional character in Anthony Powell's sequence of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time.The author's most famous creation, Widmerpool appears in all twelve books comprising the cycle...	A mediocre student whose rise seems unstoppable.	AP confirmed character inspired by Col. Denis Capel-Dunn Denis Capel-Dunn Denis Cuthbert Capel-Dunn was a British lawyer and military bureaucrat immortalised by Anthony Powell in many aspects of the character of Kenneth Widmerpool, the anti-hero of Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time sequence of novels... , under whom he served in the Cabinet Office. Plus an element from Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller's schooldays. Soviet bloc connection may be intended to suggest Labour MP Denis Nowell Pritt Denis Nowell Pritt Denis Nowell Pritt , usually known as D.N. Pritt, was a British barrister and Labour Party politician. Born in Harlesden, Middlesex, he was educated at Winchester College and London University.... .
Charles Stringham	Schoolfriend of Nick's. A romantic.	Drawn from Hubert Duggan Hubert Duggan Hubert John Duggan was a British Army officer and politician, who was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Acton from 1931 until his death... , whose glamorous mother married Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India. Not, as is often supposed, based on Powell's friend and fellow author Henry Green Henry Green Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke , an English author best remembered for the novel Loving, which was featured by Time in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.- Biography :Green was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, into an educated family... .
Uncle Giles ("Captain Jenkins")	Nick's uncle, unreliable and usually untraceable.	Ne'er-do-well type adopting military persona familiar between the wars.
Peter Templer	Raffish schoolfellow of Nick's.	based on John Spencer, friend of the author's.
Jean Templer	Peter's sister; Nick's lover	Unpredictable and self-absorbed, unexpected tastes in men.
Sillery	Manipulative Oxford don	Professor Sir Ernest Barker Ernest Barker Sir Ernest Barker was a liberal British political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.... , and "Sligger" Urquhart Francis Fortescue Urquhart Francis Fortescue Urquhart was an English academic, the first Roman Catholic to act as a tutorial fellow in the University of Oxford since the 16th century.-Life:... . Not Sir Maurice Bowra Maurice Bowra Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.-Birth and boyhood:...  as often suggested.
Pamela Flitton	Femme Fatale	based on Barbara Skelton Barbara Skelton Barbara Skelton was an English memoirist, novelist and socialite.-Background:The daughter of an army officer, she spent some of her early years in India. Her good looks allowed her to work as a model for several years. Later years found her in Yugoslavia, Egypt, the USA, Cuba and back in England... , tempestuous sometime wife of Cyril Connolly Cyril Connolly Cyril Vernon Connolly was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise , which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of... . Nymphomaniac.
Mark Members	Promising poet	Peter Quennell Peter Quennell Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.... , all-purpose literary personage, poet, and cultural historian. The name and the conference-going suggest Stephen Spender Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work... .
Edgar Deacon	Disreputable painter and antique dealer	Combination of Mr Bailey, an alcoholic antiques dealer, and eccentric bookseller Christopher Millard.
Dr Trelawney	Occultist	Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other... , self-styled Great Beast 666
The Field Marshal	Leader of desert warfare	Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
X. Trapnel	Novelist and parodist	Julian Maclaren-Ross Julian MacLaren-Ross Julian MacLaren-Ross was a British novelist.-Background:Born James McLaren Ross in South Norwood, London in 1912, his father John Lambden Ross was of mixed Scottish and Cuban blood, and his mother, from an Anglo-Indian family, was described as "a magnificent Indian lady and the obvious source of...
Hugh Moreland	Composer	Constant Lambert Constant Lambert Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer and conductor.-Early life:Lambert, the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert, was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music...
St John Clarke	Passé author	John Galsworthy John Galsworthy John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter...
Max Pilgrim	Entertainer	in the manner of Noel Coward Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...  inspired by Douglas Byng Douglas Byng thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Douglas Byng was a British comic singer and songwriter in West End theatre, revue and cabaret. Billed as "Bawdy but British", Byng was famous for his female impersonations. His songs are full of sexual innuendo and double entendres...
Sir Magnus Donners	Magnate and government minister	partly drawn from Lord Beaverbrook
J G Quiggin	Marxist writer	Conflation of Powell's enemies, novelist CP Snow and critic F R Leavis.
Erridge (Earl of Warminster)	Socialist peer; Jenkins's brother-in-law	The Earl of Longford, Powell's brother-in-law. Also Powell's friend George Orwell George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...  – lives as a tramp for a time, fights in Spanish Civil War Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939... , dies in his forties.

Adaptations

The cycle was adapted by Frederick Bradnumas as a Classic Serial

Classic Serial

The Classic Serial is a strand on BBC Radio 4 in which classics of English literature are adapted into series of one-hour dramas. It is broadcast twice weekly on BBC Radio 4, first from 3:00-4:00pm on Sunday, then repeated on 9:00-10:00pm the next Saturday....

 on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

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In order to fit the material in it was broadcast as four separate serials each based on a set of three books, the first three serials had six episodes, the last eight. The series were broadcast between 1979 and 1982.

The cycle was adapted again as a six-part Classic Serial

Classic Serial

The Classic Serial is a strand on BBC Radio 4 in which classics of English literature are adapted into series of one-hour dramas. It is broadcast twice weekly on BBC Radio 4, first from 3:00-4:00pm on Sunday, then repeated on 9:00-10:00pm the next Saturday....

 on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 from 6 April to 11 May 2008, directed by John Taylor. The cast was:

• Narrator – Corin Redgrave
  Corin Redgrave
  Corin William Redgrave was an English actor and political activist.-Early life:Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...
  
  
• Kenneth Widmerpool – Anthony Hoskyns / Mark Heap
  Mark Heap
  Mark Heap is an English actor. He began his acting career in the 1980s as a member of the Medieval Players, a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry...
  
  
• Nick Jenkins – Tom McHugh
  Tom McHugh
  Thomas McHugh is an American voice actor. He is probably best known for his role as Douglas Funnie during its years on ABC as Disney's Doug, and its full-length film, Doug's 1st Movie, following Billy West's departure from the series. He has also played various characters on animated series...
  
   / Alex Jennings
  Alex Jennings
  Alex Jennings is an English actor whose roles have included Charles, Prince of Wales in The Queen .-Early years:...
  
  
• Charles Stringham – David Oakes
  David Oakes
  David Oakes is an English film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Fordingbridge, New Forest, England, the son of a Church of England canon and a professional musician....
  
   / Timothy Watson
• Peter Templer – Jolyon Coy / Ronan Vibert
  Ronan Vibert
  Ronan Vibert is a British actor, known for his appearances on British television.-Early life:The son of Dilys and David Vibert, both artists. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1983 to 1986. He has a brother named Cevn....
  
  
• Orn – Dag Soerlie
• Lindquist – Christian Rubeck
• Sillery – Paul Brooke
  Paul Brooke
  Paul Brooke is an English actor of film, television, and radio. He is the father of actor Tom Brooke.He and Ernie Fosselius played Malakili the Rancor Keeper in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He played British Conservative politician Ian Gow in the 2004 BBC series The Alan Clark Diaries...
  
  
• JG Quiggin – Julian Kerridge
• Madame Leroy/Mrs Andriadis – Carolyn Pickles
  Carolyn Pickles
  Carolyn Pickles is an English actress who has appeared in West End theatre and on British television, perhaps most notably in Emmerdale as Shelly Williams.-Life and career:Pickles was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England...
  
  
• Jean Templer/Gyspy Jones – Emma Powell
• Suzette/Barbara – Abigail Hollick
• Erridge – Jonathan Keeble
• Mona – Abigail Cruttenden
  Abigail Cruttenden
  Abigail Cruttenden is an English actress.Cruttenden played opposite Sean Bean as his character's onscreen wife Jane in several episodes of Sharpe. The couple wed in real life in 1997 and had a daughter, Evie. Three months later they started divorce proceedings, and divorced in 2000. In 2003,...
  
  
• Molly – Heather Tracy
• Isobel – Zoe Waites

The cycle was adapted as an four-part tv-series by Anthony Powell and Hugh Whitemore for Channel 4 in 1997, directed by Christopher Morahan and Alvin Rakoff. The cast was:

• Nicholas Jenkins – James Purefoy
  James Purefoy
  James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome.-Early life and work:...
  
  
• Kenneth Widmerpool – Simon Russell Beale
  Simon Russell Beale
  Simon Russell Beale, CBE is an English actor. He has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation."-Early years:...
  
  
• Charles Stringham – Paul Rhys
  Paul Rhys
  Paul Rhys is a British television, film and theatre actor.Rhys was born in Wales and studied at RADA, leaving with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1987. While there, he obtained his first major screen role, in Absolute Beginners . Since then he has seldom been off the stage and screen...
  
  
• JG Quiggin – Adrian Scarborough
  Adrian Scarborough
  Adrian Philip Scarborough is an English character actor and won an Olivier award for best actor in a supporting role in 2011.Scarborough was born in Melton Mowbray, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, winning the Chesterton Award for Best Actor.In 1993, he was nominated for the Ian...
  
  
• Peter Templer – Jonathan Cake
• Jean Templer – Claire Skinner
  Claire Skinner
  Claire L. Skinner is an English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television career.-Biography:Born and brought up in Hemel Hempstead, Skinner, the youngest daughter of a shopkeeper and an Irish-born secretary, was immensely shy as a child...
  
  
• Mark Members – Grant Thatcher
• Pamela Flitton – Miranda Richardson
  Miranda Richardson
  Miranda Jane Richardson is an English stage, film and television actor. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and has won two Golden Globes and a BAFTA during her career....
  
  
• Sir Magnus Donners – Richard Pasco
  Richard Pasco
  Richard Edward Pasco, CBE is a British stage, screen and TV actor.-Early life:Pasco was born in Barnes, London, the son of Phyllis Irene and Cecil George Pasco. He was educated at the King's College School, Wimbledon...
  
  
• Bob Duport – Nicholas Jones
  Nicholas Jones
  Nicholas Jones may refer to:*Nicholas Jones , British actor*Nicky Jones , American voice actor*Nicky Wire , member of the Manic Street Preachers*Nic Jones , British folk singer and guitarist...
  
  
• Uncle Giles (Capt. Giles Jenkins) – Edward Fox
  Edward Fox (actor)
  Edward Charles Morice Fox, OBE is an English stage, film and television actor.He is generally associated with portraying the role of the upper-class Englishman, such as the title character in the film The Day of the Jackal and King Edward VIII in the serial Edward & Mrs...
  
  
• Mona – Annabel Mullion
  Annabel Mullion
  Annabel Mullion is an English actress.After studying drama at the University of East Anglia from 1988 to 1991, she began a career in acting. Her first screen part was in the film Carrington...
  
  
• Uncle Alfred (the Hon. Alfred Tolland) – Robin Bailey
  Robin Bailey
  Robin Bailey was an English actor. He was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.Although often chosen for upper class and tradition-bound roles such as Judge Graves in Thames Television's Rumpole Of The Bailey, Bailey is perhaps most fondly remembered for his portrayal of Uncle Mort in I Didn't Know...
  
  
• Mrs. Myra Erdleigh – Gillian Barge
  Gillian Barge
  Gillian Barge was an English stage, television and film actress.She was born in Hastings, Sussex and she started acting at the age of 17, training at the Birmingham Theatre School....
  
  
• Hugh Moreland – James Fleet
  James Fleet
  James Edward Fleet is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.-Personal life:Fleet...
  
  
• Lady Molly Jeavons – Sarah Badel
  Sarah Badel
  Sarah Badel is a British stage and film actress. She is the daughter of actors Alan Badel and Yvonne Owen.-Theatrical career:...
  
  
• Miss Tuffy Weedon – Carmen du Sautoy
  Carmen du Sautoy
  Carmen Du Sautoy is an award-winning leading actress who has worked extensively in theatre, television and film...
  
  
• Erridge (Lord Warminster) – Osmund Bullock
• Lady Susan Tolland – Geraldine Alexander
• Prof. Sillery – Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...
  
  
• Betty – Barbara Durkin
  Barbara Durkin
  Barbara Durkin is an English actress and trained at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre along with Steve Coogan.Though she made her debut in the 1987 British movie Wish You Were Here, she is better known for her television appearances. Her major credits include appearances in Mr. Bean,...
  
  
• Lady Isobel Tolland – Emma Fielding
  Emma Fielding
  Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding is an English actress.-Biography:The lapsed Roman Catholic daughter of a British Army soldier, Fielding spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop...
  
  
• Le Bas – Oliver Ford Davies
  Oliver Ford Davies
  -Biography:From the King's School, Canterbury, he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society . He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1990 for Best Actor in a New Play for Racing Demon...
  
  
• Rosie Manasch – Carmen Gómez
• Lady Priscilla Tolland – Caroline Harker
  Caroline Harker
  Caroline Harker is an English stage and television actress, the sister of actress Susannah Harker, and the daughter of actors Polly Adams and Richard Owens...
  
  
• Sunny Farebrother – Andrew Havill
  Andrew Havill
  -Life and career:Havill has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre, and was in The Woman in Black in London's West End...
  
  
• Fiona Cutts – Laura Heath
• Matilda – Anastasia Hille
  Anastasia Hille
  Anastasia Hille is an English actress active in British television, theatre, and film.Hille was a student at Drama Centre . She was nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards in 1994.-Television:...
  
  
• Odo Stevens – Nigel Lindsay
  Nigel Lindsay
  Nigel Lindsay is an English actor. He was nominated for Best British Comedy Performance in Film at the 2011 British Comedy Awards for his performance as Barry, the Muslim convert in Chris Morris's BAFTA winning Four Lions and won the 2011 Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actor as Dr Harry...
  
  
• Judy – Rachel Lumberg
• Chuck – Danny Midwinter
• Colonel Flores – Tony Osoba
  Tony Osoba
  Tony Osoba is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Jim 'Jock' McClaren in the popular 70s British sitcom Porridge, and appeared in its sequel Going Straight. Osoba was the first black Scottish actor to appear on primetime television when he appeared in the series.His other roles include...
  
  
• Smith – Bryan Pringle
  Bryan Pringle
  Bryan Pringle was a British actor who appeared in television, film and theatre productions.Born in Tamworth, Staffordshire but raised in the Lancashire town of Bolton he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1958, he married character actress Anne Jameson; together they had...
  
  
• David Pennistone – Nicholas Rowe
  Nicholas Rowe
  Nicholas Rowe may refer to:*Nicholas Rowe , English dramatist and Poet Laureate*James N. Rowe, James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe, , American military officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War...
  
  
• Audrey Maclintick – Zoë Wanamaker
  Zoe Wanamaker
  Zoë Wanamaker, CBE is an American-British actress. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company; in films, including the Harry Potter series; and in a number of television productions, including a long-time role as Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family.-Early life and family:Wanamaker was...
  
  
• Ted Jeavons – Michael Williams
• Maclintick - Paul Brooke
  Paul Brooke
  Paul Brooke is an English actor of film, television, and radio. He is the father of actor Tom Brooke.He and Ernie Fosselius played Malakili the Rancor Keeper in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He played British Conservative politician Ian Gow in the 2004 BBC series The Alan Clark Diaries...
  
  
• St. John Clarke - Sir John Gielgud
• Russell Gwinnett - James Callis
  James Callis
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• Canon Fenneau - Colin Baker
  Colin Baker
  Colin Baker is a British actor who is known for playing Paul Merroney in The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and as the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986.- Background:Colin Baker was born in London, but moved north to...
  
  

External links

• A synopsis of each novel from Anthony Powell Society
• "Models for Characters in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time"
• The time-line of the novels, how the various episodes recur in the movement of the Dance and the career, character and relationships of Kenneth Widmerpool are analysed in extracts taken from "An Index to 'A Dance to the Music of Time'" by B.J.Moule (published by consent). The latter extract is accessible in standard format at Kenneth Widmerpool
• Poussin's painting