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.

Cast & crew

Dennis Potter

Creator

Renny Rye

Director

G

Giles Thomas

Private Francis Francis

Ewan McGregor

Private Mick Hopper

Louise Germaine

Sylvia Berry

Douglas Henshall

Corporal Berry

Peter Jeffrey

Colonel Bernwood

Roy Hudd

Harold Atterbow

Clive Francis

Major Hedges

Nicholas Jones

Major Carter

Nicholas Farrell

Major Church

Maggie Steed

Aunt Vickie

Bernard Hill

Uncle Fred

B

Bernard Brown

Prime Minister Eden

Shane Rimmer

Lieutenant Colonel Trekker

Kim Huffman

Lisa

C

Carrie Leigh

Dream Girl

Frederick Treves

Brigadier Sanders

Terence Bayler

General

Tim Seely

Brigadier

James Snell

Trigorin

Seasons

6 episodes

Miniseries1993 · 6 episodes