• StatusEnded
  • Rating6.885
  • Created by:Dennis Potter
  • Production
    CompaniesWhistling Gypsy Production, Channel 4 Television
  • GenreComedy, Drama, War & Politics
  • Episode
    Runtime60mins
  • First Air
    Date1993-02-21
  • NetworksChannel 4

Overview

During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.

Casts

Ewan McGregor

Peter Jeffrey

Nicholas Farrell

Louise Germaine

Douglas Henshall

Roy Hudd

Maggie Steed

Nicholas Jones

Shane Rimmer

Jim Carter

Bernard Hill

Clive Francis