'Our Friends In The North' was a BBC2´s biggest drama success of 1996. Critically acclaimed, the serial won the channels largest drama audience for over five years and has in its short life already won the UK´s Writers´Guild Best Serial Award, a Special Commendation from the Prix Europa and was nominated as one of the BBC´s greatest serials of all time. Spanning 30 years and more than ten hours of television, 'Our Friends In The North' is the biggest contemporary serial ever produced for BBC2. This compelling saga chronicles the extraodinary lives of four Geordie friends – from their teens in the 1960s until they reach middle age in 1995 – and the world that shaped them. Inspired by real life, the serial takes its characters on an emotionally-charged journey that encompasses both the major and minor events of our time. From housing scandals to Uri Geller, 1970s police corruption to 1980s hurricanes, the Soho porn tade to the miners strike of 1984, to anarchist politics and terrorism in the mid 1970s and on into the Thatcher years, 'Our Friends In The North', provides a unique view of one of the most exciting periods in history. 'Our Friends In The North' is produced by Charles Pattinson, and directed by Simon Cellan Jones, Pedr James and Stuart Urban. The executive producer is Michael Wearing. Charles Pattinson says: 'The heart of this magnificient tale is simply a story of four friends who grow up and apart and – albeit briefly – together again. It is a story of parents and their children, of families and generations torn apart. And it is a story of a passionate 30-year relationship between a man who dreams of changing the world, and the woman he loves.'
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