TV series

A Dance to the Music of Time
1997 · 1 season
A wry, unhurried drift through decades of English social life, where old faces keep reappearing and quiet ironies accumulate.
- Created by
- Alvin Rakoff, Christopher Morahan
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- Simon Russell Beale, James Purefoy, James Fleet
- Overview
- A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Class, ambition, friendship, aging
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Alvin Rakoff, Christopher Morahan
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- Simon Russell Beale, James Purefoy, James Fleet














