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In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.


It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

Hugh Grant
Jeremy Thorpe

Ben Whishaw
Norman Scott

Alex Jennings
Peter Bessell

Monica Dolan
Marion Thorpe

Jonathan Hyde
David Napley

Jason Watkins
Emlyn Hooson

Patricia Hodge
Ursula Thorpe

Naomi Battrick
Diana Stainton

David Bamber
Lord Arran
A Very English Scandal is a drama series that first aired in 2018 exploring themes of based on novel or book, scandal, british politics, lgbt, older man younger man relationship, 1960s. Created by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, it stars Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings. It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
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