this series be the kind of thing that make tv worth it a quarter century ago . write by the english novelist frederick raphael from his book and it be more than a little autobiographic and and carry the flavour of the 50 and 60 and while avoid many of the clichés this period evoke . the tv series be intelligent and wry and literate and subtle and with brilliant act . in post war england and it follow a group of student at cambridge and with their hope and affair and confrontation with life and and and later and disillusionment and achievement . it impossible to explain how truly intelligent the writing be while this have to be experience . we need it on dvd .