British drama television series

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 132. Chapters: The Promise, Space: 1999, Skins, UFO, Spooks, Bad Girls, Lark Rise to Candleford, Kingdom, The Buccaneers, Robin Hood, The Invisible Man, Making Waves, Sir Francis Drake, Judge John Deed, Footballers' Wives, Ultimate Force, Caerdydd, Wish Me Luck, Sword of Freedom, Downton Abbey, Thriller, Misfits, The Palace, Demons, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Doc Martin, Warship, Doctor Zhivago, Whitechapel, The Onedin Line, Man of the World, Codename: Kyril, Mistresses, As If, Garrow's Law, Afterlife, All Creatures Great and Small, The Sentimental Agent, Thorne, The Jury, The Way We Live Now, Y Pris, Forever Green, See No Evil: The Moors Murders, Marchlands, Dice, Burn It, Oliver Twist, Thomas & Sarah, Espionage, The Trial of Tony Blair, Footballers' Wives: Extra Time, Space Precinct, Identity, Con Passionate, Longitude, Seacht, The Stars Look Down, Fallen Angel, Merseybeat, Britz, The Four Just Men, Life As I Know it, Scene, Cannonball, Honest, Coming Home, Widows, Maigret, Colditz, Court Martial, Mr. Palfrey of Westminster, For Maddie with Love, O.S.S., The Citadel, NY-LON, The Beachcomber, A Family at War, Seekers, Doctor Finlay, Aristocrats, The Count of Monte Cristo, Murder Prevention, The One Game, Any Human Heart, South Riding, The Time of Your Life, Cowbois ac Injans, Capital City, Police Surgeon, Cast Offs, We'll Meet Again, Scully, The Riff Raff Element, Peak Season, The Eustace Bros., Call Red, Dangerfield, The Take, Class Act, Boyd Q.C., Unforgiven, Suspect, Strictly Confidential, A Mind to Kill, Dombey and Son, Out of the Blue, The Legend of Robin Hood, The Mallens, Wonderful You, Great Expectations, Sweet Medicine, Oliver's Travels, The Old Curiosity Shop, Saracen, ITV Playhouse, The Family Man, Pretenders, Westbeach, The Golden Hour, Cold Blood, Fables of Forgotten Things, Shadow of the Stone. Excerpt: The Promise is a British television serial in four episodes written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, with music by Debbie Wiseman, which premiered on 6 February 2011 on Channel 4. It deals with a young woman going to Israel/Palestine in the present day, using her visit to investigate her soldier grandfather's part in the post-war phase of the British Mandate of Palestine. The seed of the idea for The Promise came about in the wake of the 1999 drama Warriors, Kosminsky's sympathetic portrayal of British troops trying to carry through a peacekeeping mission in central Bosnia in 1992-93, their hands tied by an impossible mandate. A former soldier wrote to the programme's executive producer Jane Tranter at the BBC, complimenting her on the drama, before adding "You should do a film about the British soldiers who were in Palestine. No one remembers us." Tranter passed the letter to Kosminsky, who initially put it to one side. However, after completing The Project in 2002, Kosminsky presented the subject to the BBC as a possible theme for a future drama, and the BBC agreed to support research on it. The BBC's Sarah Barton, subsequently assisted by Sarah MacFarlane, began making contacts through regimental groups and the Palestine Veterans Association; then by telephone interviews and finally face-to-face, also attending the veterans' annual reunion at Eden Camp and slowly gaining their collective confidence; ultimately conducting detailed interviews with 82 veterans, some of them in their eighties, many of them speaking about things they had never felt able to tell even their wives and families. Many of...