On screen
Cast
25 credited performers
Jane Horrocks
Ros Pritchard
Steven Mackintosh
Ian Pritchard
Jodhi May
Miranda Lennox
Jemma McKenzie-Brown
Georgina Pritchard
Janet McTeer
Catherine Walker
Carey Mulligan
Emily Pritchard
Jonathan Aris
Sir Richard Leavis
Geraldine James
Hilary Rees-Benson
Selina Cadell
Dorothy Crowther
Sally Phillips
Meg Bayliss
Robert Portal
Paul Critchley
Siobhan Finneran
Beverley Clarke
Frances Tomelty
Kitty Porter
Meera Syal
Liz Shannon
Chris O'Dowd
Headmaster
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Nina Morgan
Tom Mison
Ben Sixsmith
Rebekah Staton
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Roy Hattersley
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David Steel
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Peter Snow
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Richard Durden
Sir Athelstane Jervis
Adam James
Mark McCaffrey
Malcolm Sinclair
Sir Andrew McNeil
Paul Butterworth
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