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The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small grou of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disruted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor lays Mick Hoer, who is doing his national service as an interreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hoer sends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemorary hit songs. Louise Germaine lays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Cororal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick#39;s fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged ie-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hoer, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interruted by his army call u. The aearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscrits to air off with suitable artners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscrited other ranks, the work of Russian laywright Chekhov, and the areciation of oulent theatre ie organs. The unusual context — a military culture translanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter#39;s own national service during the 1950s. While this iece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter#39;s middle eriod, it is not without grahic sex and violence, as well as Potter#39;s characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centreiece of this roduction is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.