Article: Fox trots wonderfully to the music of time!; LANNING on the box.(Features)

Life must have been jolly spiffing for the toffs in tails and flibbertigibbet flappers in the days after World War One - the setting for the first part of Channel 4's epic adaptation of Anthony Powell's A Dance To The Music Of Time.

Billed as the Brideshead Revisited of the 90s, it is a jaunt of upper- class indulgence with mixed drinks, morals and genders and a cast of, well, hundreds.

Producer Alvin Rakoff's glossy, no expense spared, first 120 minutes was as rich as the salmon mousse guzzled throughout - if a little indigestible.

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