Licking Hitler
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
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10 Jan 19781941 and Anna Seaton (Kate Nelligan) is hired as part of a radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and writer Archie MacLean (Bill Paterson) threaten to undermine the work. Play for Today was a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became television series in their own right. (Wikipedia)
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- Director
- David Hare
- Starring
- Kate Nelligan, Bill Paterson, Brenda Fricker, Hugh Fraser, Clive Revill, Michael Mellinger, George Herbert, Patrick Monckton
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