Classic Serial - The Glass Bead Game - Episode 1

Dramatisation of Hermann Hesse's classic novel set in a futuristic, utopian society. Starring Derek Jacobi. Joseph Knecht is a rising star in the Castalian Order, a band of elite intellectuals who live a closeted life of study and Glass Bead Game playing. But Joseph's elevation to one of the highest and most respected ranks of the Order coincides with a crisis of conscience, as his ever deepening doubts about this idealistic and sanitised society threaten to topple its very foundations. Joseph Knecht is singled out from an early age as one of the Castalian elite. As his education progresses, Joseph quickly proves himself as a gifted Glass Bead Game player and a promising candidate for the higher echelons of the exclusive Castalian Order. Biographer...Derek Jacobi Joseph Knecht...Tom Ferguson Young Joseph...Aidan Parsons Music Master....Malcolm Raeburn Teacher/Van Der Trave...Terence Mann Plinio...David Seddon Fritz...Toby Hadoke Father Jacobus...David Fleeshman Elder Brother/Bertram...Jonathan Keeble String Player...Kevin Flynn Dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw Producer: Charlotte Riches Director: Susan Roberts.