- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
Foyle’s war is over, so we now enter “Foyle’s Peace” as the brusque Christopher Foyle (masterly Michael Kitchen) takes command of Hastings police station in June 1945 in an episode first shown 2010. But surely he resigned from the force at the end of the previous series? Well, yes, he did, but his bosses are reluctant to let him go: “Put simply, you’re a hard act to follow,” says a police chief.
As ever, the jolly decent Foyle is unhurried and unostentatiously clever as he unravels the mystery behind the deaths of a Russian prisoner of war and a respected artist shot dead in his own home. The story takes its time, and there’s still a mistrust of Johnny Foreigner that appears to go right to the top of the British Army. Foyle’s War returns to ITV soon.
About this programme
1/3. It is July 1945 and, as Britain settles into peacetime, Foyle looks forward to retirement, but finds his life in turmoil once more when Samantha's employer Sir Leonard Spencer-Jones is found dead. Suspicion falls on Niko, a Russian PoW, who flees the Sussex coast and heads for a sanctuary in London - closely followed by Foyle, who has been sent to track him down by the War Office. But the investigation soon brings to light a conspiracy and an international cover-up which, if exposed, could bring down the British government. Max Brown joins the cast, with Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Eleanor Bron and Christopher Good.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Christopher Foyle
- Michael Kitchen
- Samantha Stewart
- Honeysuckle Weeks
- DI Paul Milner
- Anthony Howell
- Elsa Konstantin
- Eleanor Bron
- Sir Leonard Spencer-Jones
- Christopher Good
- Maurice Jones
- Tom Goodman-Hill
- Monsieur Duveen
- Marcel Iures
- Brigadier Timothy Wilson
- Tim Pigott-Smith
- Adam Wainwright
- Max Brown
- Anton Valyshkin
- Sam Marks
- Ivan Spiakov
- Marek Oravec
- Andrew Bennet
- Giles Taylor
- Nikolai Vladchenko
- Dimitry Drannikov
- Edith Milner
- Polly Maberly
- Tom Bradley
- Tom Brooke
- Joe Bradley
- Ryan Kiggell
- Alex Anokhov
- Emil Hostina
- Walter Hardiman
- Alister Cameron
- DC Perkins
- Joseph Kloska
- Edna Howard
- Linda Marlowe
- Woman
- Valerie Minifie
- Army sergeant
- Rob Heanley
- Police officer
- Michael Elwyn
- Police officer
- Jon Glover
- Police sergeant
- Jem Wall
- Fisherman
- Fred Pearson
- Russian agent
- Adam Englander
- Vicar
- Roger Swaine
- Ambulance man
- Chris Sunley
- Newsboy
- Ashley Horne
Crew
- Director
- Stuart Orme
- Executive Producer
- Jill Green
- Executive Producer
- Jim Reeve
- Producer
- Lars Macfarlane
- Writer
- Anthony Horowitz
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