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"The Alan Clark Diaries" (2004)TV series

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User Rating: 6.8/10 (69 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Jon Jones
Writers:
Alice Bell (supervisor)
Alan Clark (diaries)
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Seasons:
1 more
Release Date:
15 January 2004 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Well that was his excuse.
Plot:
Alan Clarke is the member of parliament for Plymouth Sutton, where he longs for a "proper" role as a Minister in Thatcher's government... more
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
A worthy effort. . . more

Cast

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John Hurt ... Alan Clark (2 episodes, 2006)

Jenny Agutter ... Jane Clark (2 episodes, 2006)

Daniel Fearn (2 episodes, 2006)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
29 min (6 episodes)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
UK:15
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK more
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Anachronisms: In episode three, Clark's ministerial globetrotting is charted on an animated map. Unfortunately the map used for this sequence is a present-day one and very obviously wrong for the 1980s setting (the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia should each be shown as a single country). This is especially conspicuous because Clark travels to Sarajevo, and Bosnia-Hercegovinia was a republic within Yugoslavia, not an independent country. more
Quotes:
Alan Clark: More and more I'm convinced that time is the most important commodity there is. more

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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
A worthy effort. . ., 15 January 2004
Author: Lee Kelly from West Sussex, UK

. . . almost. The BBC's new six-part serialisation fails to answer the basic question, Who is Alan Clark? We all know his public persona, the flamboyant, outspoken, womanising Conservative MP - but that's all we get here. The series starts with his election victory in 1983, but it's not made clear whether this is a re-election or his first time in Government. His past remains a mystery, with no clue as to how he's gotten where he is apart from a few reminiscences of sexual conquests past.

John Hurt did criticise the speed of filming and the budget, and it's easy to see why. Every set is claustrophobic and bare, Clark seems to inhabit his own little world in which people come and go without really making much impression. Is this meant to give us some idea of his mental state, or is it just filming on the cheap? There's certainly very little period detail beyond his secretary's clothes and hair.

Ultimately it comes down to casting. John Hurt is perfect as Clark (as is Jenny Agutter as his wife Jane), but if it were all down to nothing but imitation then Alan Clark might as well have been immortalised in a one-man show, something along the lines of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads.

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