Oscar-winning writer Frederic Raphael’s TV drama series The Glittering Prizes was the great success of the late seventies. Starring Tom Conti, it followed the fortunes of a group of undergraduates in the early 1950s, watching how their hopes and ambitions were fulfilled – or not in the next twenty-five years.

After the success of the Radio 4 adaptation, and its Radio 4 sequel Fame and Fortune, Final Demands continues the story - chronicling English social life and public and private values in the last decade of the brutal 20th century.

It’s now the 1990s, and for all of those friends from the fifties life has moved on. Frederic Raphael once again brings his all wit and invention and insight to his diverse, vivid, and utterly convincing group of characters.

The series is produced by Jo Wheeler and directed by Pete Atkin.

Final Demands comes to BBC Radio 4 in 2010.