- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Jane Rackham
This drama series takes us back to 1960 and the last intake of young men who are about to serve their national service.
The eight lads are a motley crew: among them there’s a posh boy, a pacifist and a fledgeling East End gangster. But within minutes of arrival on the windswept Army base, they’ve been shorn of both hair and individuality. The incidental music is wonderfully evocative of the period, but it’s got a bleaker and grimmer feel than the successful Land Girls even though it has similar production values and an impressive cast that includes Patrick Baladi, Alex Vlahos (Mordred in Merlin) and Jack Fox.
About this programme
1/5. New series. Drama set in 1960, following eight men who have had their daily lives interrupted by conscription, and must adjust to life as an operational team known as Two Section as they begin two years of National Service. Jack Fox and Alex Vlahos star.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Pte Kennan
- Alex Vlahos
- Pte White-Bowne
- Jack Fox
- Pte Wratten
- Billy Seymour
- Pte Gordon Lomax
- Ross Anderson
- Pte Rothman
- Sam Swann
- Pte Davies
- Matthew Aubrey
- Pte McIllvenny
- Conor MacNeill
- Pte Hoy
- David Kirkbride
- Sgt Butcher
- Michael Nardone
- Cpl Barrowman
- Phil McKee
- Capt Gulliver
- Patrick Baladi
- Audrey Gulliver
- Emma Stansfield
- Connie Charles
- Sara Vickers
- LCpl Hobbs
- Marc Silcock
- Norah Preston
- Sasha Frost
- Capt Bulgakov
- Richard Katz
Crew
- Director
- Bryn Higgins
- Producer
- Nick Pitt
- Writer
- Damian Wayling
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