The State Within

Synopsis

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.

Streaming on

• BBC One↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Jason Isaacs
  as Mark Brydon
• 
  Ben Daniels
  as Nicholas Brocklehurst
• 
  Eva Birthistle
  as Jane Lavery
• 
  Aaron Abrams
  as Matthew Weiss
• 
  Neil Pearson
  as Phil Lonsdale
• 
  Genevieve O'Reilly
  as Caroline Hanley

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