The State Within
Created by Daniel Percival, Lizzie Mickery
On BBC One
A taut, six-hour political thriller built on conspiracy and diplomatic crisis, where institutional pressure and hidden agendas drive the narrative from beginning to end.
The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006. After a plane explodes over Washington DC, panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to Washington, Mark Brydon, finds himself caught in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.
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