Brideshead Revisited A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981. The novel is divided into three parts, framed by a prologue and epilogue. The prologue takes place during the final years of the Second World War. Charles Ryder and his battalion are sent to a country estate called Brideshead, which prompts his recollections which form the rest of the story. In 1923, protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder, an undergraduate studying history at a college very like Hertford College, Oxford, is befriended by Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of the
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