On screen
Cast
125 credited performers
Helen Mirren
Self
Patricia Routledge
Self
Jimmy McGovern
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Alan Yentob
Self
Roy Clarke
Self
Siân Phillips
Self
Vivien Heilbron
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Richard Eyre
Self
Peter Kosminsky
Self
Joan Bakewell
Self
Brian Cox
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Debbie Horsfield
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Michael Palin
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David Olusoga
Self
Waris Hussein
Self
Peter Egan
Self
Trevor Eve
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Simon Schama
Self
Moira Armstrong
Self
Mary Beard
Self
Renny Rye
Self
Eileen Atkins
Self
Alison Steadman
Self
Peter Davison
Self
Jed Mercurio
Self
Angela Rippon
Self
Christopher Eccleston
Self
Judi Dench
Self
Zoë Wanamaker
Self
Derek Jacobi
Self
Stephen Poliakoff
Self
Mackenzie Crook
Self
Jeanette Winterson
Self
Bernard Hill
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Michael Jayston
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Glenda Jackson
Self
Duncan Preston
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Adrian Lester
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Ruth Jones
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Tony Marchant
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Willard White
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Gary Wilmot
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Elaine Paige
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Romola Garai
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Katharine Schlesinger
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Amanda Root
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Sophie Thompson
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Frank McGuinness
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Julie Nicholson
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George Gallaccio
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Nicholas Shakespeare
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Patrick Marber
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Michael Aspel
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Christopher Biggins
Self
Mike Leigh
Self
Juliet Stevenson
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David Thacker
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Samuel West
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Penelope Wilton
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Andrew Davies
Self
Penelope Keith
Self
Darcey Bussell
Self
Claire Bloom
Self
Miriam Margolyes
Self
William Gaunt
Self
Marcia Warren
Self
Paul Abbott
Self
Wendy Craig
Self
Don Warrington
Self
Tony Jordan
Self
John Henshaw
Self
Katy Cavanagh
Self
Gloria Hunniford
Self
G.F. Newman
Self
Richard Harrington
Self
Amanda Redman
Self
Alun Armstrong
Self
James Bolam
Self
Nathaniel Parker
Self
Sharon Small
Self
Maureen Lipman
Self
Martin Compston
Self
Sally Wainwright
Self
Alison O'Donnell
Self
Philip Glenister
Self
Matthew Graham
Self
Edward Mirzoeff
Self
Mick Jackson
Self
Christopher Timothy
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Peter McDougall
Self
Gemma Arterton
Self
David Nicholls
Self
Don Cupitt
Self
Martin Scorsese
Self
Timothy Spall
Self
Dick Clement
Self
Ian La Frenais
Self
Colin Baker
Self
Hanif Kureishi
Self
Kenneth Branagh
Self
David Harewood
Self
Michael Dobbs
Self
Joseph McFadden
Self
Richard Wilson
Self
Jasper Carrott
Self
Phil Davis
Self
Sarah Churchwell
Self
Anthony Wall
Self
Gyles Brandreth
Self
Alan Bennett
Self
Michael Crawford
Self
Michele Dotrice
Self
William Boyd
Self
Amanda Burton
Self
David Tennant
Self
Janet Suzman
Self
Gregory Doran
Self
Simon Russell Beale
Self
Damian Lewis
Self
Matthew Macfadyen
Self
Hugh Quarshie
Self
Margi Clarke
Self
Steven Berkoff
Self
Indra Ové
Self
Ricky Tomlinson
Self