Julian Mitchell

Watched mostly for something to do while exercising. Learned lots about the period and persons that I didn't know, although I have read a lot about that era. Performances were good, but more appropriate to stage than film. Costumes and settings were magnificent.
I classed it as fiction rather than nonfiction, despite the accuracy of the script, because it is a docudrama, not a documentary.

Good example of the series with several plot lines well threaded together, and quite fast moving, well for this series anyway.

I ended up re-reading this play after it cropped up in another context. Set in the 1930s, in a public school, Another Country has at its centre two boys, Bennett and Judd, who both fail to fit in. The former because of his growing realisation of his homosexuality, the latter because of his communism. A film version starring Rupert Everett as Bennett (he had played the part in the stage versions earlier) and Colin Firth as Judd was made a couple of years later. I managed to tape it off show more television once, but the tape has since worn out, so it's been a few years since I last saw it or read the play. show less

Contains four "acts":
The lion's cub
The marriage game
Horrible conspiracies
The enterprise of England