During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
Dennis Potter
Private Francis Francis
Private Mick Hopper
Sylvia Berry
Corporal Berry
Colonel Bernwood
Harold Atterbow
Major Hedges
Major Carter
Major Church
Aunt Vickie
Uncle Fred
Prime Minister Eden