A VERY BRITISH COUP

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• Release Year: 1988
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: THE TAUT, POWERFUL, ALL-TOO-PLAUSIBLE STORY ABOUT A DEMOCRACY ATTACKED FROM WITHIN; ; WHEN PLAIN-SPOKEN, charismatic former steelworker Harry Perkins becomes Prime Minister in a landslide Labour Party victory, his socialist agenda horrifies the entrenched ruling class and the right-wing media. As Perkins presses ahead with plans to close down U.S. military bases, break up newspaper monopolies and dismantle British nuclear weapons, the establishment and its American allies conspire in a brutal back-room struggle to regain control. Starring Ray McAnally (A Perfect Spy, My Left Foot), this PBS Masterpiece Theatre miniseries won an International Emmy Award, three top British television awards and the Banff Television Festival grand prize.;
• Cast: Ray McAnally, Marjorie Yates, Geoffrey Beevers, Hugh Martin, Keith Allen, Oliver Ford Davies, Bernard Kay, Alan MacNaughton, Tim McInnerny, Christine Kavanagh, David McKail, Shane Rimmer, Philip O'Brien, Clive Merrison, Philip Madoc, Jeremy Young, Stephanie Fayerman, Harmage Singh Kalirai, Jim Carter, Roger Brierley, Erin Donovan, Robert Arden, Clive Panto, Zulema Dene, Terry John, George Rossi, Jessica Carney, Caroline John, Berwick Kaler, Preston Lockwood, Barbara Ward, Mick Jackson
• Director: Mick Jackson
• Runtime: 2:33
• Company: Acorn Media, Skreba Films, Channel 4
• Media Format: Series