The Glittering Prizes — Season 1, Episode 5: An Academic Life
Drama • 75 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 7.3/10
Episode synopsis
1970: Bill Bourne returns from America to work at a new university where several of his old college friends are now teaching. They find themselves taunted by a new generation of students for their outdated 'Cambridge' approach to life.
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.