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Our Friends in the North

Name: Our Friends in the North
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan

1996 · 1 season, 9 episodes · 70m episodes · Drama, War & Politics · BBC Two · United Kingdom · Rated 18 (GB)

Over the course of four decades, the personal lives of a quartet of Newcastle friends—Nicky, Geordie, Mary, and Tosker—intertwine with various political machinations, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.

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Peter Flannery

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Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan, David Bradley

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1960s1970s1980s1990s20th centuryconservative valuesepic dramafriendshiplabour movementminiseriesnewcastle, englandnorthern englandperiod dramapoliticssocial history

Rating18 (GB)

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