A middle-class nobody radicalizes in 3 days flat. What could go wrong?
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?
Acting
Kevin McNally's sweaty desperation as Hugh spirals upward then sideways.
Production
Period-perfect 1974 Britain: power cuts, paraffin heaters, collective delusion.
Director
Richard Wilson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made smack in the middle of Thatcher's Britain, this TV movie looks back at the Winter of Discontent with the weary clarity of someone who knows exactly how the 80s turned out.
Richard Wilson later became famous as Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave—imagine Hugh thirty years later, still complaining.
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