Jeremy Brett as Byron

A Selection from E.E. Cummings

Alec McCowen as Van Gogh

Margaret Tyzack as Mrs. Beeton

Tom Courtenay as D.H. Lawrence

Little Gidding

Eileen Atkins as Mary Kingsley

Ian McKellen as John Keats

Janet Suzman as Charlotte Brontë

Roy Dotrice as Anton Chekhov

Michael Jayston as Wilfred Owen

Eric Porter as Leo Tolstoy