Overview
The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006. After a plane explodes over Washington DC, panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to Washington, Mark Brydon, finds himself caught in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.
Cast
- Jason Isaacs as Mark Brydon
- Ben Daniels as Nicholas Brocklehurst
- Eva Birthistle as Jane Lavery
- Aaron Abrams as Matthew Weiss
- Neil Pearson as Phil Lonsdale
- Genevieve O'Reilly as Caroline Hanley
- Sharon Gless as Lynne Warner
- Noam Jenkins as Christopher Styles
- Ted Whittall as Gordon Adair
- Christopher Bolton as Vinny Swain