Our Friends in the North(1996)

series - first aired/released 1996-01-15 - audience 7.7

Drama, War & Politics

Directed by Pedr James, Simon Cellan Jones, Stuart Urban

Over the course of four decades, the personal lives of a quartet of Newcastle friends—Nicky, Geordie, Mary, and Tosker—intertwine with various political machinations, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.