Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in nine episodes on BBC2 in early 1996.
Telling the story of four friends from the city of Newcastle in North East England over 31 years from 1964 to 1995, it also brought in real political and social events specific to Newcastle and Britain as a whole during the era portrayed, including general elections, police corruption, the Miners' Strike and the 1987 'hurricane'.
Actors: Alun Armstrong, Julian Fellowes, Christopher Eccleston, Freda Dowie, Saskia Wickham, Louise Salter, Frank Couchman, David Schofield, Danny Webb, Daniel Casey, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Hutchings, Tracey Wilkinson, Peter Vaughan, David Bradley, Donald Sumpter, Gina McKee, Mark Strong, Malcolm McDowell
Genre: Drama
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