- Unknown:
- Jim Allen
- Unknown:
- Stanley Baldwin
- Producer:
- Tony Garnett
- Director:
- Kenneth Loach
- Ben Matthews:
- Paul Copley
- Sarah Hargreaves:
- Pamela Brighton
- Philip Hargreaves:
- Nikolas Simmonds
- J H Thomas:
- Russell Waters
- Arthur Pugh:
- Neil Seiler
- Alfred Purcell:
- Brian Harrison
- A J Cook:
- Dai C Davies
- Herbert Smith:
- George Wilkinson
- Walter Citrine:
- Richard Butler
- Ernest Bevin:
- Melvin Thomas
- Ramsay MacDonald:
- John Young
- Stanley Baldwin:
- Brian Hayes
- Thomas Jones:
- Emrys James
- Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland:
- Noel Coleman
- Lord Birkenhead:
- Alan Judd
- Joynson-Hicks:
- Philip Lennard
- Churchill:
- Leo Britt
- Lord Wimborne:
- Derek Farr
- Lady Wimborne:
- Joan Henley
- Lord Reading:
- Hilary Wontner
- Mrs Snowdon:
- Joan Haythorne
- Sir Herbert Samuel:
- David Markham
- Selwyn Davies:
- Jeremy Child
- Sir Abe Bailey:
- Bernard Padfield
- Sir Horace Wilson:
- Anthony Nash
- Solicitor:
- Brian Phelan
- Peter:
- Peter Kerrigan
- Elsie:
- Anthea Meadows
- Sarah's children:
- Sarah Paget
- Sarah's children:
- Ned Cohen
- Building workers:
- George Tovey
- Building workers:
- James Marcus
- Reporters:
- Laurie Asprey
- Reporters:
- Robert Cawdron
- Reporters:
- Martin Matthews
- Newsreader:
- Stuart Hibberd
