Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire

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  1. Episode One

  47m

  British troops are in Egypt supposedly on a peace-keeping mission, to protect the Suez Canal. But all is not as it seems. Nobody knows it, but the next 24 hours will change Britain for ever and determine the future shape of the world, told hour by hour, minute by minute through the eyes of historians and those at the heart of Government.

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  2. Episode Two

  47m

  British troops are in Egypt supposedly on a peace-keeping mission, to protect the Suez Canal. But all is not as it seems. Nobody knows it, but the next 24 hours will change Britain for ever and determine the future shape of the world, told hour by hour, minute by minute through the eyes of historians and those at the heart of Government.

Cast

Saskia Reeves

Narrator (voice)

Alan McKenna

Anthony Eden

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Tez Ilyas

Gamal Abdel Nasser

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John Statham

Dwight D. Eisenhower

James Merganser

Harold Macmillan

Steve Smith

Guy Mollet