Set in Aden in 1965 at the fag-end of The British Empire, Last Post is a 6-part drama series, created by Peter Moffat. This is the story of a British army unit fighting a terrorist insurgency in the Middle East and the women and children who were there with them.
Danger, heat, glamour – grenade attacks, roadside mines, sniper actions, gin and tonic, polka dot bikini’s and fish and chips at the BP beach club, Strangers in the Night, death in the desert, drinking and smoking like there’s no tomorrow, frying eggs on the bonnets of Land Rovers, the politics of occupier and occupied, love and war a long way from home.
Credits
A 6 x 60 minute series for BBC1/Amazon
A co-production with Bonafide Films
Starring: Jeremy Neumark Jones, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Campbell Moore and Jessica Raine.
Written by: Peter Moffat, Mick Collins
Directed by: Johnny Campbell, Miranda Bowen
Executive Producers:
The Forge – Mark Pybus, George Faber
Bonafide Films – Margery Bone, Elwen Rowlands