The Sinking of the Laconia

Episode 1

BBC Two

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 6^th Jan 2011, 21:00 on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: Sat 26^th May 2018, 14:00 on BBC Two HD

Drama telling the true story of the Laconia, sunk on the 12th September 1942 by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the women, children and POWs on board. Show more

Contributors

Director:: Uwe Janson
Hartenstein:: Ken Duken
Mortimer:: Andrew Buchan
Hilda:: Franka Potente
Elizabeth Fullwood:: Lindsay Duncan
Captain Sharp:: Brian Cox
Laura Ferguson:: Morven Christie
Mannesmann:: Jacob Matschenz
Fiedler:: Frederick Lau
Weber:: Jorg Malchow
Remmert:: Stefan Rudolf
Rostau:: Matthias Koeberlin
Schaht, Harro:: Simon Verhoeven
Danitz, Admiral:: Thomas Kretschmann
Walter Drexler:: Nikolai Kinski
Sarah Fullwood:: Jodi Balfour
Captain Coutts:: Nicholas Burns
Declan McDermott:: Ciaran McMenamin
Billy Hardacre:: Lenny Wood
Harry Townes:: Ben Crompton
William Williams:: Matthew Aubrey
Di Giovanni:: Ludovico Fremont
Henry Bates:: Paul Hilton
Producer:: Hilary Norrish
Producer:: Jonathon Young
Writer:: Alan Bleasdale
Actor:: Brian Cox

The Sinking of the Laconia

Episode 2

BBC Two

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 7^th Jan 2011, 21:00 on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: Sun 27^th May 2018, 14:00 on BBC Two HD

Historical drama. U-156's deck is crowded with Allied survivors fished out of the South Atlantic, but in the fog of war an American bomber spots the craft and moves in to attack. Show more