The Last Post

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


PRESS:

‘…vintage glamor and taut drama in colonial repression […] taut, brisk, moving and gorgeous […] strongly recalls Mad Men‘s early years’ Hollywood Reporter

‘The fall of the British Empire and the rise of Arab nationalism have rarely looked as ravishing…’ NY Times

‘…a feast for the eyes […] “The Last Post” finds a fresh angle to familiar drama.’ IndieWire

‘Fizzling with sexual tension’ Culture Whisper