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'The Affair' (Sunday 15th June 2003 , 3:00 p.m.)
The 'affair' was very odd. It happened at the Cambridge college where Eliot had taught law before the war. Then, the college had scooped him up and resurrected his faltering career and had maintained a place in his affections ever since. In 1954, Eliot was semi-detached from the university and had his head down in co-ordinating the development of the British atom bomb. Indeed, it was atomic research that took him back to the college and dropped him into the midst of the affair that was pre-occupying the senior common room. It was pure Dreyfuss - like the famous affair of the French colonel, it was a miscarriage of justice perpetrated by unsound evidence and was as much based on prejudice as on fact. His brother, Martin, who had returned to Cambridge when he left Barford met him off the early train one April morning...

Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway from C. P. Snow's 1960 novel, "The Affair".

With David Haig [Lewis Eliot], Tim McInnerny [Martin Eliot], Jeremy Child [R. E. A. Nightingale], Hugh Quarshie [R. T. A. Crawford], Geoffrey Whitehead [Francis Getliffe], Jonathan Coy [Arthur Brown], Sean Barrett [Paul Jago], Peter Blythe [Dawson Hill], Clive Merrison [Godfrey Winslow], David Acton [Julian Skeffington], and David Tennant [Donald Howard]. 60 minutes

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