Britain 1960: as the age of respectability gives way to the era of rock and roll, we follow the stories of eight privates who are part of the last intake of National Service. Stationed at a basic training depot in North Yorkshire, they are part of Two Section and their two years of National Service has just begun. Lance Corporal Jimmy Hobbs proposes to his girlfriend Norah, who works in the army canteen (NAAFI), and then goes AWOL after being chased by Private Keenan. Sergeant Butcher sees a man by his motorbike on the pier, dressed in a homemade general's uniform and speaking only in the dialogue of David Niven; he is Private Lomax. Corporal Barrowman, having taken a dislike to Private Wratten, initiates a search for a 'stolen' watch and pronounces Wratten the thief. After lights out, the men deal with dislocation in their own way: Keenan writes in his journal, Hoy cries and Lomax is nowhere to be seen...
Ross Anderson
Private Lomax
Matthew Aubrey
Private Davies
Patrick Baladi
Captain Gulliver
Jack Fox
Private White-Bowne
Sasha Frost
Norah Preston
David Kirkbride
Private Hoy
Conor MacNeill
Private McIlvenny
Phil McKee
Corporal Barrowman
Michael Nardone
Sergeant Butcher
Billy Seymour
Private Wratten
Emma Stansfield
Audrey Gulliver
Sara Vickers
Connie Charles
Alexander Vlahos
Private Keenan
Richard Katz
Captain Bulgakov
