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) the Lyceum Theatre Sheffield. In 2014 he directed his second short film "DOG" and in July 2015 directed his first red button episode of "Casualty" for the BBC. Ryder continues his relationship with "The Full Monty" as the director of the new touring production starring Gary Lucy which tours the UK through the autumn of 2015 through in to 2017. Ryder returned to acting and played a new character Gareth in Kay Mellors' BBC drama "In the Club" which aired in May 2016. Ryder becomes in 2017 the assistant director to Tim Firth on his and Gary Barlow's new musical