The first episode of the eagerly-awaited five-part adaptation of Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford's twentieth-century masterpiece, airs tonight on BBC2 at 9pm.
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Parade’s End is the title Ford Madox Ford gave to his greatest work, the four Tietjens novels which – in Graham Greene’s words – tell ‘the terrifying story of a good man tortured, pursued, driven into revolt, and ruined as far as the world is concerned by the clever devices of a jealous and lying wife’.
The drama revolves around the character Christopher Tietjens, a Tory gentleman which the Great War, a savage marriage, and the qualities in his inherent nature, define and unravel. Playing Tietjens will be played by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock). Alongside Cumberbatch will be Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona), playing Tietjen’s promiscuous wife. The script has been written by internationally acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard, who, after reading Parade’s End , could not resist returning to TV to bring it to life. Executive producer Damien Timmer says Parade’s End ‘is one of the great epic stories of modernist fiction and it struck me that if you were going attempting to adapt a masterpiece it would need a very special person to write the screenplay...in a moment of great bravery [I] approached Tom Stoppard... And so he set off on his first adventure in television for decades.’
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