Churchill's Secret

Churchill's Secret is a British drama television film first broadcast on ITV1 on 28 February 2016. The screenplay was written by Stewart Harcourt based on the book The Churchill Secret: KBO by Jonathan Smith. It stars Michael Gambon as Winston Churchill and Romola Garai as Millie Appleyard, his nurse. Production was supported by PBS, which screened the film as part of its Masterpiece anthology.

Plot

In summer 1953, some eighteen months after Churchill has become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time, he suffers a serious stroke. Although his illness is kept as secret as possible, when it is unclear whether he will recover, his political friends and foes begin to plot who will be his successor. His wife takes him to their country home, where he is nursed back to health by Nurse Millie Appleyard.

Cast

Production

Gambon's casting was announced in May 2015. In June, it was announced that the actress Romola Garai had taken the role of Millie Appleyard.

Filming took place at West London Film Studios for various interior shots.

References

External links

• Churchill's Secret at IMDb

1. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2. Churchill's Secret War
3. Racial views of Winston Churchill
4. Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits
5. Special Operations Executive
6. Madhusree Mukerjee
7. Chris Larkin
8. Winston Churchill
9. Daisy Lewis
10. MI6
11. Doris Castlerosse
12. Randolph Churchill
13. Anders Lassen
14. Damien Lewis (filmmaker)
15. Winston Churchill as writer
16. Romola Garai
17. Dixie Egerickx
18. Churchill tank
19. Matilda Sturridge
20. Matthew Macfadyen