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
Charles Pattinson Charles Pattinson Charles Pattinson (sometimes credited as Charlie Pattinson) is a British television producer. His initial career was in the theatre, where he was an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre in the mid-1980s. In 1985 he moved into television, joining the staff of the BBC as a production trainee, before eventually becoming a producer in the drama department. He produced a variety of series and one-offs for the Corporation during the 1990s, of which the best known are 1996's "Our Friends in the North" (winner of the 1997 Best Drama Serial accolades from both the British Academy Television