A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
Ian Holm
as F.R. Leavis
Leo McKern
as Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sara Kestelman
as Queenie Leavis
Alan Cumming
as Tulloch
Rufus Sewell
as Mike Costain
John Lloyd Fillingham
as Young F.R. Leavis
Helga Brindle
as Young Queenie Leavis
Miranda Forbes
as Miss Greve
Alice Douglas
as Girton Girl
Sean O'Callaghan
as Police Constable
Charles Dale
as Ambulance Driver
