The Glittering Prizes — Season 1, Episode 3: A Past Life
Drama • 75 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 7.3/10
Episode synopsis
1960: Adam publishes his first novel, starts to write for film, and decides to confront a formidable adversary — the brilliant but dangerous Stephen Taylor, a prominent supporter of 1930s British fascism.
About The Glittering Prizes
The Glittering Prizes is a six-part British television drama written by Frederic Raphael, broadcast on BBC Two in 1976. From the 1950s to 1970s, a group of Cambridge University students explore their changing lives and the 'glittering prizes' of success, academia and personal fulfillment in a shifting Britain.