Brideshead Revisited (film) Brideshead Revisited (film) Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as the television serial "Brideshead Revisited". Although he aspires to become an artist, middle-class Charles Ryder reads history at the University of Oxford, where he befriends the flamboyant and wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte. Sebastian's mother, Lady Marchmain, strongly disapproves of his lifestyle, especially his heavy drinking. When Sebastian takes him home to visit his nanny, Charles is
Charles Denton (television and film producer) later controller of programming. Not long after joining ATV he began the "Pilger" series which ran for five series between 1974 and 1977. John Pilger recalled: ""Pilger" was Charles' idea ... It was he who encouraged me to stand in front of the camera and say 'I'." Denton came under extreme political and diplomatic pressure from both the British and Saudi governments both before and after ATV part-financed and produced the drama-documentary "Death of a Princess" shown on 9 April 1980. The British ambassador to Saudi Arabia was requested to leave the country, and remained away from his post for