Brideshead Revisited 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 45 on the BBC survey The Big Read. In 2005, it was chosen by "Time" magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. In 2009, "Newsweek" magazine listed it as one of the 100 best books of world literature. In 1981 "Brideshead Revisited" was adapted as an 11-episode TV serial, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV, starring Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Lord Sebastian Flyte. The bulk of the serial was
Jack Ryder (actor) the Lyceum Theatre Sheffield. In 2014 he directed his second short film "DOG" and in July 2015 directed his first red button episode of "Casualty" for the BBC. Ryder continues his relationship with "The Full Monty" as the director of the new touring production starring Gary Lucy which tours the UK through the autumn of 2015 through in to 2017. Ryder returned to acting and played a new character Gareth in Kay Mellors' BBC drama "In the Club" which aired in May 2016. Ryder becomes in 2017 the assistant director to Tim Firth on his and Gary Barlow's new musical