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Viceroy's House

Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Lord Mountbatten arrives in India to take the post of last Viceroy. He and his wife Edwina take up residence in the Viceroy's House, with its hundreds of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim Indian servants. Meanwhile new servant Jeet Kumar arrives to begin his new work as one of Mountbatten's dressers, only to encounter a long lost love from a difficult period in his past. With the country shrouded in civil unrest, Mountbatten is determined to oversee a peaceful transition of power but as India's leaders squabble amongst themselves it begins to look as though partition might be the only answer. Show less

Contributors

Lord Mountbatten:
Hugh Bonneville
Edwina Mountbatten:
Gillian Anderson
General Hastings Ismay:
Michael Gambon
Aly Rahim Noor:
Om Puri
Cyril Radcliffe:
Simon Callow
Muhammad Ali Jinnah:
Denzil Smith
Mahatma Gandhi:
Neeraj Kabi
Jawaharlal Nehru:
Tanveer Ghani
Lady Pamela Hicks:
Lily Travers
Archie Wavell:
Simon Williams
Duleep:
Jaz Deol

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