The Day Britain Stopped (TV 2003)One day in the near future, a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision bring the UK's transport system to a halt. Director:Gabriel Range |
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The Day Britain Stopped (TV 2003)One day in the near future, a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision bring the UK's transport system to a halt. Director:Gabriel Range |
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| Tim Pigott-Smith | ... |
Narrator
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| Eric Carte | ... |
Tom Walker, MP (Transport Minister)
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Andrew Shield | ... |
Inspector Clive Turner (Surrey Police Roads Division)
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| Stephen North | ... |
Julian Galt
(as Steve North)
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Angelo Andreou | ... |
Tomas Galt (air crash victim)
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Emma Pinto | ... |
Ana Galt (air crash victim)
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Olivia MacDonald | ... |
Marina Galt (air crash victim)
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Prue Clarke | ... |
Pauline Watkins (mother of car-crash victim)
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| Jonathan Linsley | ... |
PC Tony Foster (Surrey Police Roads Division)
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Anna Rajan | ... |
Herself (Radio 5 Traffic Reporter)
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Tony Longhurst | ... |
Steve Thomas (Tanker Driver)
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David Holt | ... |
Dominic Steel (Safety Compliance Manager, Heathrow)
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Joanna Griffiths | ... |
Nicola Evans (Approach Controller, West Drayton Air Traffic Control)
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Alison Skot | ... |
Air Traffic Controller
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Daniel Copeland | ... |
Matt Ogden (Supervisor, Heathrow Control Tower)
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Dramatised documentary which analyses the catastrophe and national tragedy that could happen to Britain if its already over-burdened transport systems reached breaking point. Set in the future on 19 December 2003 and presented as if it were a retrospective documentary made subsequently, complete with mock archive footage and hindsight interviews. Written by Anonymous
Like Smallpox 2001 before it, i found out about this on the day it was to be shown by flipping through the paper, and i'm glad i watched it, continuing in the vein of "What might have been" BBC docu-dramas (The war game, Threads, Smallpox 2001, and If... in 2004) it shows an all-too plausible scenario of total meltdown of the transport system. Also quite scary (to me anyway) was the antiquated-looking nature of the air traffic control systems..they said that the controllers had to "Imagine a 3D picture", this isnt the 1970's anymore, we have the technology for the screen to display a 3D picture!. But anyway, if this film is ever repeated i recommend people watch it..even if it is just to call it "scaremongering" as so many anti-science people do