37 Days (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Mark Hayhurst |
| Directed by | Justin Hardy |
| Theme music composer | Andrew Simon McAllister |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
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| Cinematography | Douglas Hartington |
| Editor | Adam Green |
| Running time | 177 minutes |
| Production company | Hardy Pictures |
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| Release | 6 March – 8 March 2014 |
37 Days is a British drama miniseries that was first broadcast on BBC Two from 6 to 8 March 2014. The three-part miniseries covers the weeks before World War I, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914 to the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany on 4 August 1914.[1]
Cast
- Ian McDiarmid as Edward Grey
- Nicholas Farrell as Eyre Crowe
- Tim Pigott-Smith as Herbert Henry Asquith
- Sinéad Cusack as Margot Asquith
- Bill Paterson as Lord Morley
- Kenneth Cranham as John Burns
- Ludger Pistor as Bethmann-Hollweg
- Rainer Sellien as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Bernhard Schütz as Helmuth Moltke
- Mark Lewis Jones as David Lloyd George
- Nicholas Asbury as Winston Churchill
- Urs Remond as Prince Lichnowsky
- James McArdle as Alec
- André Kaczmarczyk as Jens
- Holger Kunkel as Falkenhayn
- Stephan Szasz as Jagow
- Kate Ambler as Muriel
- François-Éric Gendron as Paul Cambon
- Niall Cusack as Benckendorff
- George Lenz as Mensdorff
- Chris Reilly as Gavrilo Princip
- Oliver Ford Davies as Cunliffe
- Patrick Fitzsymons as King George V
- Ian Beattie as Tsar Nicholas II
- Simon Coury as Franz Ferdinand
- Rainer Reiners as Von Below
- Gordon Fulton as Sukhomlinov
- Mary Moulds as Sophie Chotek
- Christopher Leveaux as Lieutenant Feldmann
Production
The series was shot entirely in Northern Ireland.[2] It is part of the BBC World War I centenary season and was first announced by Janice Hadlow, the controller of BBC Two, on 22 August 2013.[3] The series was made to quash assumptions about the war’s inevitability, such as the Sarajevo shooting making the war inevitable.[4][5]
Writer and producers Mark Hayhurst and Sue Horth compiled a 175-page book tracing "every conference, every telephone call, private letter and telegram swirling around Europe" before writing the script.[6]
Episode list
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "One Month in Summer" | Justin Hardy | Mark Hayhurst | 6 March 2014 | 2.89 |
| 2 | "One Week in July" | Justin Hardy | Mark Hayhurst | 7 March 2014 | 2.14 |
| 3 | "One Long Weekend" | Justin Hardy | Mark Hayhurst | 8 March 2014 | 1.84 |
References
- ^ "Drama". BBC. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ "37 Days on BBC Two". Northern Ireland Screen. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
- ^ "Janice Hadlow announces raft of new BBC Two and BBC Four commissions". BBC. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ Jackson, James (22 August 2013). "BBC serial 37 Days to overturn assumptions about First World War". The Times. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ Burrell, Ian (13 October 2013). "WW1 beyond the mud and trenches: BBC's plans for the centenary of World War One". The Independent. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ "37 Days: Changing my perspective of WWI". BBC. 7 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- ^ "BARB Top 30s".
External links
- 37 Days at BBC Online
- 37 Days at IMDb
- Radio Times, 37 Days
