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17.06.02

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Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave head an all-star cast in The Gathering Storm, a major new film for BBC TWO

Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave head an all-star cast in The Gathering Storm, a major new film for BBC TWO which explores Churchill's pre-war wilderness years.

The Gathering Storm also stars Derek Jacobi (Prime Minister Baldwin), Jim Broadbent (Churchill's close friend and advisor Desmond Morton), Linus Roache (Ralph Wigram), Ronnie Barker (Churchill's manservant, Inches), Hugh Bonneville (Ivo Pettifer), Celia Imrie (Churchill's secretary, the redoubtable Mrs P), Tom Wilkinson (Vansittart) and Lena Headey (Ava Wigram).


The Gathering Storm tells the story of Churchill's pre-war years and his struggle to alert the British people to the threat posed by the Nazis.

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The Gathering Storm press pack (780 KB) is available in pdf format . You may require Adobe Acrobat Software to read PDF files which can be obtained here.


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