Lucky Jim

Stephen Tompkinson heads the cast of this star-studded adaptation of Kingsley Amis's classic satirical novel set in post-World War Two Britain. He plays newly appointed university lecturer Jim Dixon, whose drive and ambition are thwarted at almost every step by his own social ineptitude : not to mention the often bizarre attitudes and behaviour of those around him. Robert Hardy, Keeley Hawes, Penelope Wilton and Denis Lawson also star