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The Glittering Prizes (1976)

The Glittering Prizes poster
Directed by
Robert Knights
Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This series follows a group of Cambridge students from their university years in 1952 into their middle age in the 1970s. It shows how their lives and relationships change over time.

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What happens

The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama by Frederic Raphael about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in January 1976 and later adapted into a novel of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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