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The Fools on the Hill
10:30 pm - 11:45 pm Wednesday, November 4
BBC Four
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The Fools on the Hill
Jack Rosenthal's 1986 drama based on the BBC's first 'high-definition' television broadcast at London's Alexandra Palace on November 2, 1936. The service was set to be the first of its kind in the world - but behind the scenes, not everything was going to plan. Starring Shaughan Seymour
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- Shaughan Seymour — Actor as Cecil Madden
- Nicholas Farrell — Actor as David
- Caroline Embling — Actor as Florence
- Nicola King — Actor as Wendy
- Jill Balcon — Actor as Miss Stanley
- Mike Lewin — Actor as Mr Thomas
- Roger Booth — Actor as Commissionaire
- Lella Hoffman — Actor as Ellen Townsend
- Graham Cull — Actor as Mr Kingsley
- Anthony Calf — Actor as Leslie Mitchell
- Dave Hill — Actor as Mr Bliss
- Ron Meadows — Actor as Stage manager
- Ian Barritt — Actor as Dallas Bower
- Maev Alexander — Actor as Jasmine Bligh
- Nadio Fortune — Actor as Toni
- Robert McIntosh — Actor as John Logie Baird
- Edmund Pegge — Actor as George More O'Ferrall
- Wilfred Harrison — Actor as Sir John Reith
- Clifford Parrish — Actor as BBC chairman
- Hugh Dickson — Actor as Post-Master General
- Kenneth Midwood — Actor as Lord Selsdon
- Pat Whitmore — Actor as Adele Dixon
- Lorraine Porter — Actor as Miss Lutie
- John Flint — Actor as Gerald Cock
- Leon Lissek — Actor as Isaac Shoenberg
- Tracy Miller — Actor as Helen McKay
- Jonathan Newth — Actor as Mr Piggot-Smythe
- Jack Rosenthal — Writer
- David Giles — Director
- Peter Wolfes — Producer
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