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) in a recurring role on Five's "Family Affairs" which he pulled out of when he learned that the series was soon to be axed. In 2004, he played a role in the ITV crime drama "" and appeared in a play broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2006, Ryder starred in the British film "Popcorn" which was released in the spring of 2007. Ryder was due to become a regular character in the then-new ITV1 daytime series "The Royal Today", a contemporary spin-off of "The Royal", but he subsequently withdrew from playing the role. In 2007, aged 26, Ryder appeared