Explores the social, political, and artistic fortunes and foibles of upper-class Brits from the 1920s through the '60s from the viewpoint of everyman Nicholas Jenkins (D'Arcy and Purefoy) and his journey from schooldays to old age. Richardson is sexy man-eater Pamela Flitton and Beale is the unremarkable but ambitious and lucky Widmerpool among a cast of hundreds. Based on Anthony Powell's 12-volume series.