Parade’s End (BBC-HBO 2012,Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall)

One of the major highlights of 2012 was Parade’s End, a BBCHBO production which stars Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch. The scripts are by Tom Stoppard and based on a quarter of novels by Ford Maddox Ford.

The plot follows a love triangle between a married couple and a suffragette with the heavy back drop of world war one playing a part.

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production details
UK – USA | BBC – HBO | 5×60 minutes | Broadcast Friday 24 August – Friday 21 September 2012

Writer: Tom Stoppard
Director: Susanna White

cast
Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens
Rebecca Hall as Sylvia Tietjens
Roger Allam as General Campion
Adelaide Clemens as Valentine Wannop
Jonathan Coy as Bertram
Rupert Everett as Mark Tietjens
Stephen Graham as Macmaster
Patrick Kennedy as McKechnie
Elliot Levey as Colonel Levin
Tom Mison as Potty Perowne
Jack Huston as Gerald Drake
Miranda Richardson as Mrs Wannop
Sylvestra Le Touzel as Marchant
Janet McTeer as Mrs Satterthwaite
Sasha Waddell as Glorvina
Steven Robertson as Bill C.O.
Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Captain Notting
William Ellis as Aubrey
Michael Shaeffer as RSM
Tilly Blackwood as Second Teacher

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