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
Sebastian Baczkiewicz In 2004, he wrote half of a six-part series for BBC Radio 4 using characters from Arthurian legend. In 2012, his radio drama "Pilgrim" was nominated for the Prix Italia and awarded silver at the Prix Europa. Sebastian Baczkiewicz Sebastian Baczkiewicz (born 1962, Hammersmith, London) is an English writer. Baczkiewicz trained as an actor at The Drama Centre in London. He was the BBC's first writer in residence in 2000. Author of a number of episodes of "Holby City", Baczkiewicz has written a range of plays for BBC Radio including adaptations of "Les Miserables" and "The Count of Monte Cristo"