Russian Soldier, The (BBC-2 1986, Warren Clarke, Patrick Malahide)

The Russian Soldier was a drama broadcast under the Screen Two banner.

production details
UK / BBC-2 / 1×85 minute episode / Broadcast 9 March 1986

Writer: Brian Phelan / Script Editor: Alan Drury / Music: Stanley Myers / Producer: Alan Shallcross / Director: Gavin Millar

cast
Warren Clarke as Edgar Garrett
Patrick Malahide as John Carter
Alan MacNaughtan as Ken Tuke
Jerome Flynn as Nigel
June Page as Carol
Jane Wood as Julie Garrett
Steven Jackson as Michael
Iain Rattray as Government Minister
Susan Dowdall as First Civil Servant
Henry Moxon as Second Civil Servant
Peter Sands as Naval Officer
James Walker as Bookseller
Douglas Harris as Taff
Richard Cubison as Harry
Eileen Helsby as Supervisor
Neil Salvage as Technician
Dominic Allan as Uniformed Policeman
Charles Pemberton as Plainclothes Policeman
Peter Quince as Reporter
Deborah-Jane Sharpe as Reporter
Steffanie Pitt as Tuke’s Secretary
Martin Wagner as Van Driver
Keith Rawlings as Hunt Secretary
Bibs Ekkel as Russian Soldier
Jason Evans as Stephen
James Lance as Danny
Jason King as Fin

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