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
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"