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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

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📜 Overview: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy. Hardy's brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character.
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Robert Hardy original image
Winston Churchill
Robert Hardy
Eric Porter original image
Neville Chamberlain
Eric Porter
Peter Barkworth original image
Stanley Baldwin
Peter Barkworth
Nigel Havers original image
Randolph Churchill
Nigel Havers
Siân Phillips original image
Clementine Churchill
Siân Phillips
Edward Woodward original image
Sir Samuel Hoare
Edward Woodward

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