Our Friends in the North

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Our Friends in the North is a critically acclaimed British television drama series that chronicles the lives and political awakenings of four friends in Newcastle over several decades from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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instanceOf British television drama series
television miniseries
awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Serial
surface form: BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial
basedOn Our Friends in the North self-linksurface differs
surface form: Our Friends in the North (stage play)
basedOnWorkBy Peter Flannery NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Peter Flannery NERFINISHED
depicts British politics from the 1960s to the 1990s
urban redevelopment in Newcastle upon Tyne
director Pedr James
Simon Cellan Jones NERFINISHED
Stuart Urban
executiveProducer Michael Wearing
firstAired 1996-01-15
firstBroadcastBy BBC
follows lives of four friends over several decades
genre drama
political drama
hasMainCharacter Geordie Peacock
Mary Cox
Nicky Hutchinson
Tosker Cox
hasReception critical acclaim
hasSettingCountry United Kingdom NERFINISHED
lastAired 1996-03-04
mainSetting London, England
surface form: London

Newcastle upon Tyne
notableFor early major television roles for Daniel Craig and Mark Strong
spanning four decades of British social and political history
numberOfEpisodes 9
numberOfSeries 1
originalBroadcastFormat television
originalLanguage English
originallyBroadcastOn BBC Two in the United Kingdom
originalNetwork BBC Two
producer Charles Pattinson
productionCompany BBC
releaseYear 1996
runningTimePerEpisode approximately 60 minutes
setInPeriod 1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
stars Christopher Eccleston
Daniel Craig
Gina McKee
Mark Strong NERFINISHED
theme political awakening
social change in Britain
writer Peter Flannery NERFINISHED

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Our Friends in the North basedOn Our Friends in the North self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Our Friends in the North (stage play)
Ian McDiarmid notableWork Our Friends in the North
Mark Strong notableWork Our Friends in the North