The State Within(2006)
Overview
The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006. After a plane explodes over Washington DC, panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to Washington, Mark Brydon, finds himself caught in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.
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Mark Brydon
Nicholas Brocklehurst
Jane Lavery
Matthew Weiss
Phil Lonsdale
Caroline Hanley
Lynne Warner
Christopher Styles
Gordon Adair
Vinny Swain
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