The Monocled Mutineer

Paul McGann stars in this award-winning series alongside Cherie Lunghi, Timothy West and Penelope Wilton, with an early sighting of Jerome Flynn. Alan Bleasdale's script is drawn from the novel by William Allison and John Fairley and tells the story of Private Percy Toplis, who leads a mutiny at the Etaples training camp in northern France during World War One; after which he takes flight in the disguise of a British officer. But no-one can outrun the full might of the British Army…