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Five Seconds to Spare

Duration: 1 hour, 39 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Thriller based on Jonathan Coe's best-selling novel, The Dwarves of Death. Opening with a bizarre murder witnessed solely by the lead singer of a rock band, the story then jumps back three weeks as the band moves to London in search of stardom. Here, they meet their drug-crazed producer whose involvement with a 1970s punk band increasingly appears to hold the key to the murder. Featuring a cameo by the late John Peel. Show less

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