Plot
Drama following the life and times of disgraced Labour politician John Stonehouse, a high-flying minister under Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s government vanished from the beach of a large luxury hotel in Florida in Nov. 1974, leaving a neatly folded pile of clothes as he swam into the sea, intent on faking his own death.
Cast
Matthew Macfadyen
as John Stonehouse
Keeley Hawes
as Barbara Stonehouse
Emer Heatley
as Sheila Buckley
Kevin McNally
as Harold Wilson
Dorothy Atkinson
as Betty Boothroyd
Archie Barnes
as Matthew Stonehouse
Simon Greenall
as Speaker at The House of Commons
Orla Hill
as Jane Stonehouse
Aoife Checkland
as Julia Stonehouse