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A Very Open Prison

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A new season of Screen Two begins with this comedy drama starring Tom Wilkinson
Three prisoners ruin the Home Secretary's week, and provide the catalyst that threatens to topple the Government, by breaking out of a newly privatised jail.
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Contributors

Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins
Director:
Guy Jenkin
David Hanratty:
Tom Wilkinson
Brian Silcott:
Ronald Pickup
Jeremy Craig:
Stephen Tompkinson
Amanda Ellis:
Emily Mortimer
Dominic Casement:
Peter Wingfield
Lord Langland:
Michael Hordern
Chief Constable Christie:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Prime Minister:
John Fortune
Victoria Bridgewater:
Celia Imrie
Sir Mortimer Fawkes:
Julian Fellowes
John Bentley:
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Arthur Hare:
William Hoyland
Vince:
Jason Barry
Ricky:
David Sterne
Eddie:
Andy Hamilton
inspector Lisa Sutcliffe:
Susannah Hitching
Dick Holt:
Frederick Warder
Herself:
Sue Carpenter
Source: Radio Times

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