An original screenplay in three parts by TROY KENNEDY MARTIN
1: Compassionate Leave
'Hi, Dad.... I'll be at college till ten.... Can you pick me up? Love you.... Bye.'
A message for Ronald Craven: widower, Yorkshire detective, a loner. One daughter, Emma: a clever girl with more to her life than her father chooses to see.
A moment's savagery on a rainswept night presents Craven with his most harrowing case - and a one-way ticket to the heart of the nuclear state.
MICHAEL MEACHER , MP as Himself
Music by ERIC CLAPTON with MICHAEL KAMEN
Produced by MICHAEL WEARING Directed by MARTIN CAMPBELL
(Part 2 tomorrow at 10.20pm) * CEEFAX SUBTITLES