Good move from book to TV
Aristocrats: Sir Jeremy Irons and Sir John Gielgud star
Nina Caplan|Evening Standard
5 April 2012
DVD: Brideshead Revisited Granada, 15, £34.99
Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg's TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel proved that given grace, talent and a remarkable cast, a great novel can receive the treatment it deserves.
Jeremy Irons is the lonely middleclass boy pitched into the middle of a troubled aristocratic family as a result of his 1920s Oxford friendship with charming but unstable Anthony Andrews.
The friendship brings laughter and love, but also gives him an insight into a decadent, crumbling world of steadfast Catholicism and wavering sanity. This three-disc set includes the whole series digitally remastered but, sadly, no extras.