Jim Broadbent
Logan Mountstuart
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- 1. S1 E1 Nov 21, 2010
- After suffering a heart attack, an old man begins looking through diaries.
- 2. S1 E2 Nov 28, 2010
- Ian Fleming recruits Logan as a British agent where he travels to Portugal.
- 3. S1 E3 Dec 5, 2010
- Logan has found success in the art world of New York, but can't deal with the death of his mother.
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer. It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted ...
A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson. Stars. Jim Broadbent. Matthew Macfadyen.
Jan 25, 2002 · In Any Human Heart, the life of an individual is tossed around by dramatic events so that it is hard to see to what extent the identity of any one person is shaped by circumstances and… “never say you know the last word of any human heart” (Henry James).
Nov 21, 2010 · Episode #1.1: Directed by Michael Samuels. With Jim Broadbent, Conor Nealon, Matthew Macfadyen, Sam Claflin. The elderly Logan Mountstuart recalls his life as recorded in his many journals. In 1926, as an Oxford student, he is keen to race his friends Peter and Ben to losing their virginity.
Dec 5, 2023 · Any Human Heart is peppered with socio-political events and key periods from human history, such as the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the cultural revolution in the 1950s and 60s. How does William Boyd leverage the arc of history to tell Logan’s story?
Feb 10, 2003 · The up-and-down life and times of a globetrotting author-adventurer, chronicled with exuberant wit and romantic gusto. Like Boyd’s The New Confessions (1988), Any Human Heart is a panoramic picaresque.
The story of Logan Mountstuart's life, one which spans every decade of the 20th century.
Any Human Heart. Classic and contemporary literature is embodied in the British drama series "Masterpiece." Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional...
Jan 25, 2002 · William Boyd’s entertaining story of a life apparently lived to the full turns into a journey deep into a very human heart. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - but Logan Mountstuart's is more extraordinary than most.
Celebrated novelist William Boyd's best selling novel Any Human Heart is adapted as a stunning drama mini-series with an all star cast. Starring Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and new-comer Sam Claflin as Logan at different ages, it is a compelling portrait of one person's journey through history and the 20th Century.
