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
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