Characters played by Patricia Hodge
Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP (Prime Minister)
Characters played by James Fox
Rt Hon Peter
6th Baron Carrington KCMG MC (Foreign Secretary)
Characters played by John Standing
Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)
Characters played by Michael Cochrane
Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
Characters played by Jeremy Child
Rt Hon Francis Pym MC MP (Lord President of the Council
Foreign Secretary)
Characters played by Rupert Vansittart
Sir Robert Armstrong (Cabinet Secretary)
Characters played by Jonathan Coy
Richard Luce MP (Minister of State
Foreign Office)
Characters played by Clive Merrison
Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
Characters played by Peter Blythe
Rt Hon Sir Michael Havers QC MP (Attorney-General)
Characters played by Jeremy Clyde
Sir Nicholas Henderson (HM Ambassador to the United States)
Characters played by Colin Stinton
Alexander Haig (US Secretary of State)
Characters played by Shaughan Seymour
Adm. Sir Henry Leach (First Sea Lord)
Characters played by Anthony Calf
Robin Fearn (Head of Falkland Islands Department
Foreign Office)
Characters played by Jasper Jacob
John Wilkinson MP (Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Nott)
Characters played by Richard Cordery
Tom Enders (US Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs)
Characters played by Bob Sherman
President Ronald Reagan
Characters played by Lorelei King
Jeanne Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN)
Characters played by Garrick Hagon
Vernon Walters (Senior Adviser to the US Secretary of State)
Characters played by Robert Hardy
Sir Anthony Parsons (HM Ambassador to the UN)
Characters played by Arturo Venegas
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (UN Secretary-General)
Characters played by Vernon Dobtcheff
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
Characters played by Robert Bowman
Sir Hamilton Whyte (Member
British Mission to the UN)
Characters played by John Woodvine
Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin (Chief of the Defence Staff)
Characters played by Tom Chadbon
Adm. Sir John Fieldhouse (C-in-C Fleet)
Characters played by Gordon Langford Rowe
Rt Hon George Thomas MP (Speaker of the House of Commons)
Characters played by Patrick Godfrey
Rt Hon Michael Foot MP (Leader of the Opposition)
Characters played by Ron Meadows
Rt Hon Peter Shore MP (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Characters played by Renny Krupinski
David Lambie MP (Labour)
Characters played by David Fleeshman
Rt Hon Denis Healey CH MBE MP (Deputy Leader of the Labour Party)
Characters played by Charles McCurdy
John Browne MP (Conservative)
Characters played by Martin Oldfield
Rt Hon Enoch Powell MP (Conservative)
Characters played by Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Anthony Meyer Bt MP (Conservative)
Characters played by Alan Rothwell
John Wells MP (Conservative)
Characters played by Geoff Holman
Rt Hon Tony Benn MP (Labour)
Characters played by Ray Donn
Minister
Characters played by Leonard Silver
Government Minister